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Musician. Comedian. Actress. YouTube personality. TV host. Nora Lum, who goes by Awkwafina online and as a musician, has almost done it all over her relatively short career. But her next step reaches the peak of the traditional entertainment world: Hollywood.
Lum has been cast as one of the stars of Ocean’s 8, the all-female reboot of the Ocean’s 11 franchise.
Fittingly, her journey began with YouTube, or as she calls it, “Asian Hollywood.”
“It’s a place for minorities to go to really take the reins of whatever project they want to be doing without getting passed by some kind of gatekeeper,” Lum said.
She
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