Awkwafina Defied Typecasting in The Farewell
The comic rapper turned actress broke our hearts with her quietly effective dramatic debut in Lulu Wang’s 2019 film.
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Acting is an art form, and behind every iconic character is an artist expressing themselves. Welcome to
The Great Performances, a bi-weekly column exploring the art behind some of cinema’s best roles. In this entry, we examine Awkwafina’s Golden Globe-winning performance in The Farewell.
The entertainment industry likes to place actors into neat little boxes. This actor does drama, this one does comedy, this person is known for horror, this one for rom-coms.
For decades, awards shows provided a front-row seat to TV viewers favorite performers.
Even as audiences for sitcoms and dramas were siphoned away by streaming services, the Oscars, the Grammys and the Golden Globe Awards could be relied upon every year to deliver the biggest TV ratings outside of NFL football.
But over the past year, awards shows could not catch a break as the pandemic turned the spectacles into low-key, socially distanced and often virtual affairs. Both the CBS telecast of the 63rd Grammy Awards (9.2 million viewers on March 14) and NBC s presentation of the 93rd Golden Globe Awards (6.9 million viewers on NBC) dropped more than 50% from 2020 levels, according to Nielsen.
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A version of this story first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
The Oscars have been delayed and disrupted before, but there has never been an awards season like the one that will end on April 25 at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Starting soon after last year’s Oscars on Feb. 9, 2020, the world changed, first with a global pandemic and then with a long-delayed reckoning with institutional racism.
But over the past year, awards shows could not catch a break as the pandemic turned the spectacles into low-key, socially distanced and often virtual affairs. Both the CBS telecast of the 63rd Grammy Awards (9.2 million viewers on March 14) and NBC’s presentation of the 93rd Golden Globe Awards (6.9 million viewers on NBC) dropped more than 50% from 2020 levels, according to Nielsen.
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