Awkwafina in Her Mystery Character in ‘Shang-Chi’ & the Marvel Character She Wants to Meet IRL
Awkwafina has starred in movies like Crazy Rich Asians and The Farewell, but she promises that her next film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, will provide a “different level of representation” that Asian-American audiences haven’t seen before.
“I was pretty blown away at the different level of representation that it shows,” she tells StyleCaster. “I’ve been a part of some movies that definitely have representation, but I haven’t seen something quite like this. I think that’s the really cool thing of how representation is evolving.”
Shang-Chi, which stars Simu Liu and premieres on July 9, 2021, follows the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian-American lead, Shang-Chi, a master of kung fu and superhero. “I didn’t really know what it was about. I knew it was about the first Asian-American Marvel superhero,” says Awkwafina, whose character hasn’t been revealed yet. “It wasn’t until I met with Destin Cretton, the director, that I got his vision of how this would be different in the tropes that he would...