'I cared so much about doing a good audition tape for Lulu,' awkwafina told ELLE. 'It was probably one of the most important audition tapes of my life.' The actress on her new film TheFarewell:
that the rapper-comedian hired a Chinese tutor. Most of the dialogue in the semi-autobiographical film—based on Wang's family's attempts to keep her grandmother from learning of her own cancer diagnosis, while also staging an elaborate wedding to gather everyone in China to see the matriarch one last time—was in Mandarin."I cared so much about doing a good audition tape for Lulu," she says."It was probably one of the most important audition tapes of my life.
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