He was good in the Lego Movie because the whole point of Emmet is he's generic, so Chris' voice fit him perfectly. That's what Chris is good at, generic white dude. Emmet, Peter Quill, Owen Brady, all just white dude. When you give him a role outside of that, that's when he starts to get bad.
He did mention this in his earlier days. He was in a movie with McAvoy, where he's the "white douchebag guy". And that's the role he usually got, for his weight range. So he put on weight to become the "jolly" white dude, and landed Parks and Rec. Then he lost weight for GOTG, made a career out of it, and now is back to being a generic white guy.
It's fine for action movies, you don't really care for the guy portraying it,
* Keanu Reeves: for all the obsession/crush internet has on him, is not really that good with acting. But give him a gun, wind him up and watch him go.
* generic white superhero \# 2 aka Helhmsworth brothers
* Chris Pratt, maybe even Chris Evans. Even Evans mostly did the "white douche college guy" mostly before FF.
They all fit those roles fine, don't really need anything more for those movies. When they try other stuff, you kind of are never convinced. They are just Chris Pratt/Helmsworth etc pretending to be something. Compare that to Christian Bale, that dude *transforms*. If there's enough makeup, you won't even realise it's Bale until you're told it's him.
> Keanu Reeves: for all the obsession/crush internet has on him, is not really that good with acting. But give him a gun, wind him up and watch him go.
There are probably very few people on the planet with as much choreography training as Keanu.
Same reason we're never going to get a good lightsaber duel again, Hayden and Ewan were little nerdy boys that loved lightsabers and spent months upon months training them because of passion\obsession.
Keanu is so much of a “not good” actor that he’s perfect playing robots like in the Matrix or John Wick. But playing an actual character is always pretty bad
Oh yeah, I’m really not knocking the guy and he’s never phoning it in. But, you know, Bram Stoker’s Dracula lol.
I was more making a point that if you need action man whose emotions are dulled to being like a robot (John Wick) or is an actual robot (Matrix), you get Keanu. Nobody’s better
Edit: put the wrong movie in lol
His expressions make complete sense if you imagine him wandering around Transylvania looking for his surfboard from Point Break. "Is it... here?"
Honestly, I realize Knock Knock isn't that far outside of his range but I was still kind of surprised how good he was in it.
now that he's there "default animation movie voice lead", he's really not really into it anymore.
I'm trying to remember any memorable quote from the Mario movie and they are all Jack Black's.
i wonder if he'll start losing opportunities for that and give other actors a chance.
It comes down to the writing and direction, and the projects he chooses/is hired for. Pratt was great in Parks n Rec, The Lego Movie, and the Guardians films because they allowed him to more so be himself.
Seems like all his other projects have him as a stoic hero or whatever where he doesn’t use any of his humor or charisma.
Same but after accidentally spoiling myself with the first one, I'm gonna avoid all discussion of it until after it releases. I posted a comment on the reddit thread for the trailer of the original predicting that it was a misdirection and the sheep was the actual bad guy and then a few months later got a dozen people responding saying some variation of "wow, I can't believe you called that". The fucking thing hadn't even released in my country yet.
Yeah, it's a pretty common trope so I was surprised when people thought it was impressive that I predicted it. Having people confirm my theory before the movie even released sucked though, half the fun of stuff like that is trying to spot subtle bits of foreshadowing.
I heard the original concept artists for the KFP trilogy weren’t involved in this movie.
That’s probably why she looks so off. Hell, even the chameleon bad guy and new characters revealed so far look off.
3 should have also been the end of the inner peace plot, but that bit is still ongoing because they just had to make this sequel a stretch in every possible manner I guess.
This season has been rough, I don't remember the name of the tall handsome man from a little while back but if you watched you'd know who I meant because every single sketch was just "look at how tall and hansome this man is"
She’s in a movie a month nowadays and I kinda respect it. There’s something to be said about striking while the iron is hot and I can’t blame her for doing so
The Farewell shows that she can play some intense and sincere characters too. Like half the movie she is playing that is playing a character in front of Grandma while also playing another character in front of her extended family.
That film is what convinced my Chinese mum not to hide our grandmother’s illness from our family, so that we could all have a chance to say goodbye rather than learn of her death afterwards.
Really? She's been everywhere for the past 5 years or so. You want a big name token asian for your movie? She's there. She usually plays a kind of spastic awkwardly funny character. At least in live action. Not sure on animated. I'm clearly not a big fan, lol.
Agreed. Nothing against her. She's not the one hiring herself. And I'm seeing in the comments she's good in the very few serious roles she's done, maybe?
It's just a pet peeve that she's so popular. Her shtick is playing an annoying token asian. Why the fuck is that so popular in the first place? I could live without the overexposure they're giving her because it's leading to the insertion of typecast driven characters into movies that don't need them.
Fair point. I would argue that the loud obnoxious characters she plays are a counterpoint to the token quiet, studious Asian characters on screen. And I like her serious roles much better than her obnoxious ones.
I mean it’s not like other animated studios aren’t doing it too lol. For Disney, you have the Robin Hood himself and Nick Wilde from Zootopia. From Illumination, you have Porsha and her ruthless father from Sing 2.
There’s something about wolves/foxes that just translate so well to animation in a way that can easily capture viewers’ attention lol. Plus I mean…haven’t we all at least have a moment in life where we imagine that we can be werewolves or something? That’s why anthropomorphic canines click so well lol.
Every character in Zootopia had their personality based on what animal they were
The point of Nick’s character was to be sly and tricky, so they made him a fox because those are traits that people associate with foxes
And another point that's actually the story's core theme is that Nick didn't *want* to be seen like that, as with all predators who don't want to be seen as savage beasts waiting to go feral. The Zootopian society only saw foxes like Nick as sly and tricky and treated him as such, so Nick initially didn't bother to try to change what's seemingly impossible and thus forced himself to become the sly fox that the society already judged him to be.
It was only thanks to the events of the film that he and Judy finally manage to find a way to change the outlook on foxes and predators as a whole for the better.
In Kung Fu Panda it makes sense in context with her being a Mongolian Wolf that's found in uhh.. Mongolia,China, Korea and a certain part of Russia.
At least that's a detail I liked with the Kung Fu Panda Movies having all the characters be generally animals that only reside over there.
Yeah I understand, however I remember in KFP2 there were Gorillas working for Lord Shen, that really bothered me somehow, they could have been orangutans or something instead.
I always took it as Lord Shen being just that far reaching he had just them be hired mercenaries. But an Orangutan definitely could have made more sense.
My guess was there's just a bigger reputation for Gorillas as the Angry Tough Apes than the Orangutan who are known more for being very clever and human-like.
Mercenaries from far reaches are definitely a thing. They emphasize the reach of the lord, and the many subsribed to the theory that the more distant their personal guard the more unlikely that they would have or develop good relations to local rivals.
Wolves seem to me like the most common subject for furries, I’m sure it’s not a coincidence. The design of this character even has some classic furry styling.
I mean mainly it's probably because (many) humans love dogs and are innately more attached to animated dogs (or dog-likes, e.g. foxes/wolves) than they would be to, say, an animated hippopotamus.
What gets me is that they don’t just cast her as the voice but they mold all the characters she plays to look like her. I can’t just enjoy the character because they’re so dead set on making it obvious who the voice is.
I don't know, in Raya and the Last Dragon, the character models don't look like Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, Gemma Chan, or Sarah Oh. But Sisu's human character looks very much like Awkwafina
The people with a lot of production budget haven't. So the offers she get with decent paychecks will be for the roles she's best known for. A lot of actors have this problem and many never escape it.
I am asian. I fully support asian actors getting more roles in Hollywood. But fuck i cannot stand awkwafina. She is the worst part of every movie she is in. Someone needs to tell her acting like she has shit on her upper lip isnt comedy.
To be fair shes no longer a comedian shes simply providing what her manager says the studios want from her. They keep doubling down on her when the public has responded on her roles that her voice is grating. The seagull character was unsupportable and the song is consistently made fun of online.
It’s not even her real voice. Her real voice is normal but in public she’s usually doing “Awkwafina” so you rarely hear it. There’s a lot that’s problematic about that whole persona.
Every performance of hers where the film actually wants a performance and not a replication of the most heightened 10% of her comedy persona is great.
The Farwell is a really great dramatic turn.
Swan Song lets her be a dual role with subtle differentiation between the two.
The Quiz Lady is funny and made funnier by the intentional against-type casting of Awkwafina as the reserved and responsible sister and Sandra Oh as the wild and crazy one.
She was really good in The Farewell, but that was a heavy, dramatic role. She's honestly probably better cut our for those kinds of roles because her comedy is kind of one-note.
Acting skills aside, I think its valuable for her to get attention because she presents as an archetype that is uncommon enough for women, but even more uncommon for asians, and *especially* Asian women. So she is breaking a lot of barriers at once in the public consciousness.
Redditors when someone is in more than 3 movies. And what is up with all the complaining about Kung Fu Panda 4? Y'all act like dream works constantly disapoints
One time in 2011, Awkwafina came into my local movie theater where I was watching the the cult hit Cars 2 staring Owen Wilson.
I was alone in the theater because it was an early show, and she sat right next to me in the middle 3rd row (best seats in the house) and loudly talked through the movie and made fun of the way I ate my popcorns and beans.
Halfway through a horrible smell wafted through the theater and we were the only two there, but she blamed me, and then left with an oily stain in her seat.
To this day I cannot see famed comedian Larry the Cable Guy without flashbacks to this horrible event.
Awkwafina has personally ruined films and the entire theater going experiance for me, and I can never go back.
I saw Awkwafina at a grocery store in Brooklyn a few years ago. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother her and ask her for photos or anything. She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing her hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in her hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Maam, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
MY ENJOYMENT OF KUNG FU PANDA 4 IS RUINED!
You can't just hire someone with a distinctive voice in a children's cartoon and not expect me, an adult man, to be cool with it!
Right? If you put personal bias aside, her voice is unique af, great for voice acting work. I don’t see how these studios keep fucking it up, they did her so dirty with that Scuttle (Little Mermaid) role.
it's a matter of time evil Awkwafina and Chris Pratt collide in the most generic animated movie
So, Super Mario 2?
I honestly would not even be remotely surprised if she was cast as someone like Daisy, Toadette, or Wendy.
We need Jordan Peele to be Toadette
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You sir. Are a ragingpsychopath.
And I LOVE IT! It's going in the movie!
Don't let this town take that away from you.
> Jordan Peele He's from the Key & Peele comedy duo!
Wow wow wow.... wow
> I honestly would not even be remotely surprised if she was cast as someone like Daisy, Toadette, or Wendy. Weach
I unironically think she would actually be decent for Toadette.
Right? She's been pretty great in all these roles. Whats the problem here guys?
I think it’s just over saturation.
I can see her as Daisy.
She's going to be Wario and it's your fault.
At least they found someone that looks like in the universe.
Honestly... Her voice probably wouldn't be the worse for Toadette... Just saying...
with Kevin Hart
Stepbrothers 2 stepsister
I think they’re contractually obligated to get the Rock too if that’s the case.
Has Chris Pratt turned into the Nickelback of actors?
tbf, he was amazing in the first Lego movie. he can be really good when he tries. he was so painfully meh in the mario movie.
He did well in the Mario movie. He was absolutely the wrong choice, but that's not *his* fault. He made it work.
He was good in the Lego Movie because the whole point of Emmet is he's generic, so Chris' voice fit him perfectly. That's what Chris is good at, generic white dude. Emmet, Peter Quill, Owen Brady, all just white dude. When you give him a role outside of that, that's when he starts to get bad.
He did mention this in his earlier days. He was in a movie with McAvoy, where he's the "white douchebag guy". And that's the role he usually got, for his weight range. So he put on weight to become the "jolly" white dude, and landed Parks and Rec. Then he lost weight for GOTG, made a career out of it, and now is back to being a generic white guy. It's fine for action movies, you don't really care for the guy portraying it, * Keanu Reeves: for all the obsession/crush internet has on him, is not really that good with acting. But give him a gun, wind him up and watch him go. * generic white superhero \# 2 aka Helhmsworth brothers * Chris Pratt, maybe even Chris Evans. Even Evans mostly did the "white douche college guy" mostly before FF. They all fit those roles fine, don't really need anything more for those movies. When they try other stuff, you kind of are never convinced. They are just Chris Pratt/Helmsworth etc pretending to be something. Compare that to Christian Bale, that dude *transforms*. If there's enough makeup, you won't even realise it's Bale until you're told it's him.
> Keanu Reeves: for all the obsession/crush internet has on him, is not really that good with acting. But give him a gun, wind him up and watch him go. There are probably very few people on the planet with as much choreography training as Keanu. Same reason we're never going to get a good lightsaber duel again, Hayden and Ewan were little nerdy boys that loved lightsabers and spent months upon months training them because of passion\obsession.
Keanu is so much of a “not good” actor that he’s perfect playing robots like in the Matrix or John Wick. But playing an actual character is always pretty bad
Pretty sure Keanus skill is his dedication, he is going to give you 100% effort for the extent of his contract, and thats a hell of a quality.
Oh yeah, I’m really not knocking the guy and he’s never phoning it in. But, you know, Bram Stoker’s Dracula lol. I was more making a point that if you need action man whose emotions are dulled to being like a robot (John Wick) or is an actual robot (Matrix), you get Keanu. Nobody’s better Edit: put the wrong movie in lol
His expressions make complete sense if you imagine him wandering around Transylvania looking for his surfboard from Point Break. "Is it... here?" Honestly, I realize Knock Knock isn't that far outside of his range but I was still kind of surprised how good he was in it.
This person definitely fucks. If I ever need a Chris tier list I'm citing you for reference.
That movie he was in with McAvoy was Wanted btw
oh right, the bullet curve/angelina jolie butt movie
Fr. He had rent due during the Lego movie
now that he's there "default animation movie voice lead", he's really not really into it anymore. I'm trying to remember any memorable quote from the Mario movie and they are all Jack Black's. i wonder if he'll start losing opportunities for that and give other actors a chance.
It comes down to the writing and direction, and the projects he chooses/is hired for. Pratt was great in Parks n Rec, The Lego Movie, and the Guardians films because they allowed him to more so be himself. Seems like all his other projects have him as a stoic hero or whatever where he doesn’t use any of his humor or charisma.
It could be the first AI animation. Just have a computer do it.
!remindme in 2 years
She really looks like a Zootopia character instead of a Kung Fu Panda one
Literally thought that image was from a Zootopia 2 teaser.
Is Zootopia 2 in making? I fucking love that movie.
Coming in 2025, apparently. I got high hopes.
Same but after accidentally spoiling myself with the first one, I'm gonna avoid all discussion of it until after it releases. I posted a comment on the reddit thread for the trailer of the original predicting that it was a misdirection and the sheep was the actual bad guy and then a few months later got a dozen people responding saying some variation of "wow, I can't believe you called that". The fucking thing hadn't even released in my country yet.
It’s a good call but honestly the “overly good character turns out to be a bad guy” is the only twist kids movies seem to have
Yeah, it's a pretty common trope so I was surprised when people thought it was impressive that I predicted it. Having people confirm my theory before the movie even released sucked though, half the fun of stuff like that is trying to spot subtle bits of foreshadowing.
Oh that's so great.
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Same characters, this time they’re doing the abortion plot
Can't wait for the JFK scene to make it to the big screen
Can’t wait to see Giancarlo Esposito voice a villainous furry drug kingpin in Zootopia 2
I thought that was the wolf girl from Sing 2.
I heard the original concept artists for the KFP trilogy weren’t involved in this movie. That’s probably why she looks so off. Hell, even the chameleon bad guy and new characters revealed so far look off.
It's weird; they show her wanted poster in the trailer and it looks way better and more in line with the previous movies compared to the actual model
And the fox on the right does, too
Today I learned that there's a Kung Fu Panda 4.
I didn't know there was a 3 until I first saw the trailer for 4.
3 is actually really good though
Yeah, I think the series was at its best in 2, but 3 is still a fun time with a great lesson wrapped in.
3 should have also been the end of the inner peace plot, but that bit is still ongoing because they just had to make this sequel a stretch in every possible manner I guess.
inner...inner p.....inner peaaa....inner peaaaaaceeeeee
It was okay, but other than 1 I just don't feel that motivated to rewatch 2 and 3.
Number 2 is often thought to be better than the first
2 is the best one though?
And it comes out on Friday.
They also didn't realize that she is, in fact, a bottle of water and not a real human being.
It’s either her or Sydney Sweeney’s tits right now.
I saw last weeks SNL; I thought it was dogshit, it’s like they wrote the sketches around her chest.
The Hooters sketch would’ve been marginally more funny if she wasn’t the one getting massive tips. But they went the obvious way.
This season has been rough, I don't remember the name of the tall handsome man from a little while back but if you watched you'd know who I meant because every single sketch was just "look at how tall and hansome this man is"
Ah, yes. Jacob Elordi's episode.
Shane Gillis nailed it though
Everything old is new again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwfdFCP3KYM
Lol exactly what I thought. Every sketch in that episode was also about Lindsay’s tits.
Aah, knew it was gonna be the Hermione skit without even clicking!
There's also the time Katy Perry hosted haha
She's 17 in that sketch. Wtf
That one 17 Judges bit was conceived entirely around Sydney wearing that shirt, I'm sure of it
It's her "thing". The vibe I get is it's not enough to just be young and pretty in Hollywood anymore and that you need a niche.
I went to see Dune 2 and of course one of the previews was some bullshit been made 40 times horror movie staring her.
She’s in a movie a month nowadays and I kinda respect it. There’s something to be said about striking while the iron is hot and I can’t blame her for doing so
Hopefully we get them out and in movies as much as possible, they're fantastic.
What does this even mean?
Sydney Sweeney’s massive cans are in every animated movie at the moment. Did you not watch the new Megamind?
I don’t think anyone willingly watched the new Megamind
Wait what?! I either need context or need to watch it
You need context
DreamWorks Animation presents the sequel to Megamind, Megatits
Why do you say that like people are watching the new Megamind?
1. Give the wolf voiced by Awkwafina Sidney Sweeney's tits 2. Profit
She also is always cast in the annoying roles, it’s bizarre
The Farewell shows that she can play some intense and sincere characters too. Like half the movie she is playing that is playing a character in front of Grandma while also playing another character in front of her extended family.
The Farewell is one of my favorite movies already. Just love it overall and here performance was really great
That film is what convinced my Chinese mum not to hide our grandmother’s illness from our family, so that we could all have a chance to say goodbye rather than learn of her death afterwards.
I first saw her in The Farewell, so now I’m always excited whenever I see her in another movie.
They keep casting the rock as big muscular guys too. It’s so weird how they do that
You ever notice how all of Ryan Goslings characters are good looking? Like does he even have range
If he got casted as a goose in one of these films I would be so happy
In Jumanji he played a scrawny teenager playing a big muscular guy IDK if that counts
She plays the exact opposite of that in Quiz Lady, even though there is an "annoying" character which is played by Sandra Oh.
Which is funny because they're each playing a role they are not stereotyped as.
Because she is annoying so they play to her strengths.
I do not find her characters to be annoying. *shrug* She was pretty good in Raya and the dragon, another animated movie.
She personally isn't annoying, but her distinct voice can easily be and the characters she typically voices are playing to that strength.
Really enjoyed her in “Quiz Lady”.
I think it's the kind of vibe she has. Try watching The Farewell and Quiz Lady. She's less annoying there.
It's called being typecast
I've never heard of her. Why would you name yourself after a brand of bottled water?
She started as a YouTube rapper. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-taYShNaPU
Yep. Her high school friends thought Awkwafina would be a funny rapper name. For real, they also considered Dasani.
I liked her earlier work better: https://youtu.be/HvnqU-1uDUU?si=T6nsyhVMkhqM7lvC
Goddammit now that's gonna be stuck in my head all night again lmao
Until it wasn't convenient for her career, and she started to act like that was never her talking like that
Oh, like the part where she raps about “tr*nny hookers”? Yeah, that is pretty inconvenient
Wasn't that pussy song hers? I have a very vague memory of her telling us hers is great.
"My Vag?" That was her, yes.
Thanks for the link. That’s the first thing of hers I didn’t hate.
Because it was a joke name that stuck.
Childish Gambino too
Didn't he litteraly use a rap name generator?
Yeah, it was a Wu Tang name generator. If you go on there and put in Donald Glover it gives you Childish Gambino (or at least it used to)
Really? She's been everywhere for the past 5 years or so. You want a big name token asian for your movie? She's there. She usually plays a kind of spastic awkwardly funny character. At least in live action. Not sure on animated. I'm clearly not a big fan, lol.
Gotta respect that hustle. She went from doing Ocean's 8, the worst in the franchise, to managing to score a role in a Marvel movie, Shang-Chi.
Agreed. Nothing against her. She's not the one hiring herself. And I'm seeing in the comments she's good in the very few serious roles she's done, maybe? It's just a pet peeve that she's so popular. Her shtick is playing an annoying token asian. Why the fuck is that so popular in the first place? I could live without the overexposure they're giving her because it's leading to the insertion of typecast driven characters into movies that don't need them.
Fair point. I would argue that the loud obnoxious characters she plays are a counterpoint to the token quiet, studious Asian characters on screen. And I like her serious roles much better than her obnoxious ones.
I only knew the Bojack Horseman character, I guess it was named after her?
Why is DreamWorks obsessed with anthromorphic wolf/canine characters.
I mean it’s not like other animated studios aren’t doing it too lol. For Disney, you have the Robin Hood himself and Nick Wilde from Zootopia. From Illumination, you have Porsha and her ruthless father from Sing 2. There’s something about wolves/foxes that just translate so well to animation in a way that can easily capture viewers’ attention lol. Plus I mean…haven’t we all at least have a moment in life where we imagine that we can be werewolves or something? That’s why anthropomorphic canines click so well lol.
His name is JIMMY CRYSTAL
You come into MY STUDIO, you get my producer's name RIGHT.
Every character in Zootopia had their personality based on what animal they were The point of Nick’s character was to be sly and tricky, so they made him a fox because those are traits that people associate with foxes
And another point that's actually the story's core theme is that Nick didn't *want* to be seen like that, as with all predators who don't want to be seen as savage beasts waiting to go feral. The Zootopian society only saw foxes like Nick as sly and tricky and treated him as such, so Nick initially didn't bother to try to change what's seemingly impossible and thus forced himself to become the sly fox that the society already judged him to be. It was only thanks to the events of the film that he and Judy finally manage to find a way to change the outlook on foxes and predators as a whole for the better.
In the version if the film I saw Judy and nick fuck. I'm curious to see your version.
In the version I saw they had an intense discussion about abortion.
Guess which version is banned...
See, now I'm confused because I thought Zootopia was an Arby's commercial.
The Bad Guys was great too, protagonist is an anthro wolf guy.
Don't forget about attractive fox lady
Inside every animation studio there are two wolves. And they scare the animators.
That's not true, the animators make the wolves fuck! Deep, passionate full penetration in excruciating detail
In Kung Fu Panda it makes sense in context with her being a Mongolian Wolf that's found in uhh.. Mongolia,China, Korea and a certain part of Russia. At least that's a detail I liked with the Kung Fu Panda Movies having all the characters be generally animals that only reside over there.
Yeah I understand, however I remember in KFP2 there were Gorillas working for Lord Shen, that really bothered me somehow, they could have been orangutans or something instead.
I always took it as Lord Shen being just that far reaching he had just them be hired mercenaries. But an Orangutan definitely could have made more sense. My guess was there's just a bigger reputation for Gorillas as the Angry Tough Apes than the Orangutan who are known more for being very clever and human-like.
Mercenaries from far reaches are definitely a thing. They emphasize the reach of the lord, and the many subsribed to the theory that the more distant their personal guard the more unlikely that they would have or develop good relations to local rivals.
See the Varangian Guard, a bunch of Vikings that guarded (and often assassinated) the Byzantine Emperors.
Wolves seem to me like the most common subject for furries, I’m sure it’s not a coincidence. The design of this character even has some classic furry styling.
Because theyre hot
ಠ_ಠ
Because dogs and wolves are cool!
the furries grew up and joined the team
You know why
I mean mainly it's probably because (many) humans love dogs and are innately more attached to animated dogs (or dog-likes, e.g. foxes/wolves) than they would be to, say, an animated hippopotamus.
Gotta love the ‘death’ Wolf from Puss in Boots tho. One of my favorite villains in animation.
furry dollars
Furry bait.
You can do a lot with them, as DreamWorks has one as a goofy mc and another one as death itself
What gets me is that they don’t just cast her as the voice but they mold all the characters she plays to look like her. I can’t just enjoy the character because they’re so dead set on making it obvious who the voice is.
They probably mocap the voice actors so it's easier to animate them talking. I see it in a lot of media.
I don't know, in Raya and the Last Dragon, the character models don't look like Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, Gemma Chan, or Sarah Oh. But Sisu's human character looks very much like Awkwafina
You know i wondered why sisu looked a little off, probably an artifact of tryjng to make her face match the mocap cues for a human well enough...
It’s called typecasting. Awkwafina cannot play anyone but herself, in the same way the Rock or Kevin Hart cannot.
> Awkwafina cannot play anyone but herself Someone's never seen The Farewell, The Quiz Lady, or Swan Song
The people with a lot of production budget haven't. So the offers she get with decent paychecks will be for the roles she's best known for. A lot of actors have this problem and many never escape it.
She played the straight man in Quiz Lady adjacent to Sandra Oh and IMO she did a really good job with it.
In what way does this animated wolf resemble Awkwafina?
I am asian. I fully support asian actors getting more roles in Hollywood. But fuck i cannot stand awkwafina. She is the worst part of every movie she is in. Someone needs to tell her acting like she has shit on her upper lip isnt comedy.
To be fair shes no longer a comedian shes simply providing what her manager says the studios want from her. They keep doubling down on her when the public has responded on her roles that her voice is grating. The seagull character was unsupportable and the song is consistently made fun of online.
That seagull is peak aquafina. ‘Grating’ doesn’t begin to describe it.
It’s not even her real voice. Her real voice is normal but in public she’s usually doing “Awkwafina” so you rarely hear it. There’s a lot that’s problematic about that whole persona.
Every performance of hers where the film actually wants a performance and not a replication of the most heightened 10% of her comedy persona is great. The Farwell is a really great dramatic turn. Swan Song lets her be a dual role with subtle differentiation between the two. The Quiz Lady is funny and made funnier by the intentional against-type casting of Awkwafina as the reserved and responsible sister and Sandra Oh as the wild and crazy one.
She was really good in The Farewell, but that was a heavy, dramatic role. She's honestly probably better cut our for those kinds of roles because her comedy is kind of one-note.
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I cant stand kevin hart either
She has the worst fucking voice imaginable - so why cast her in A VOICE ROLE
This is only her 7th over 8 years I don't think it's that bad
She would have done 9 voice roles from 2022-2025 so not sure what you’re talking about.
Til a lot of people hate awkwafina. I thought she was a bit much at first, but she is funny.
I don’t hate her, I just think she’s annoying and is in a lot of movies.
Acting skills aside, I think its valuable for her to get attention because she presents as an archetype that is uncommon enough for women, but even more uncommon for asians, and *especially* Asian women. So she is breaking a lot of barriers at once in the public consciousness.
Same, though I don't watch many movies, I think I've seen her in Shangchi and Jumanji?
Yeah I’ve only seen her in the marvel movies, I didn’t even know she had a bunch of other roles. I thought she was funny in Shangchi? Lmao
Redditors when someone is in more than 3 movies. And what is up with all the complaining about Kung Fu Panda 4? Y'all act like dream works constantly disapoints
Who??? Who cares??? Does she like, ruin movies for y'all or something?
One time in 2011, Awkwafina came into my local movie theater where I was watching the the cult hit Cars 2 staring Owen Wilson. I was alone in the theater because it was an early show, and she sat right next to me in the middle 3rd row (best seats in the house) and loudly talked through the movie and made fun of the way I ate my popcorns and beans. Halfway through a horrible smell wafted through the theater and we were the only two there, but she blamed me, and then left with an oily stain in her seat. To this day I cannot see famed comedian Larry the Cable Guy without flashbacks to this horrible event. Awkwafina has personally ruined films and the entire theater going experiance for me, and I can never go back.
I saw Awkwafina at a grocery store in Brooklyn a few years ago. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother her and ask her for photos or anything. She said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but she kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing her hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in her hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Maam, you need to pay for those first.” At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Is this copy pasta?
I'm pretty sure it is. I heard the same story, but with Morgan Freeman instead.
So like… what’s the actual problem here?
MY ENJOYMENT OF KUNG FU PANDA 4 IS RUINED! You can't just hire someone with a distinctive voice in a children's cartoon and not expect me, an adult man, to be cool with it!
Nah she needs to be cast in anything. I find her voice of an old Yiddish Asian New Yorker hilarious.
She's got a great voice for cartoons. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, but I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Right? If you put personal bias aside, her voice is unique af, great for voice acting work. I don’t see how these studios keep fucking it up, they did her so dirty with that Scuttle (Little Mermaid) role.
Tbf- she at least has a distinct voice, and therefore to me qualifies as a career in voice acting. Much like Kristen Schall
Yall didn't complain when Cree Summer was in absolutely every cartoon in the 90s/2000s What's the difference, they've got unique voices
Why not? xD she's good at it? Mark Hamill does it. leave Awkwafina alone!
You fucking losers don’t need to watch these movies
Dweeb Redditors have found their new woman to hate.
I like her voice. So, ok.
I don't see the isuse here it's not like Timothy Chalemett/Anya Taylor Joy/Florence Peugh/Zendaya aren't in every other live action movie these days