Awkwafina on How Gaming Has Gotten Her Through 2020: "It's a Way to Unwind"

Awkwafina stared in 2019's Jumanji: The Next Level, which was about a group of people who get trapped in a video game as a set of avatars. Awkwafina says being a fan of video games "definitely encouraged" her to join the cast of the popular movie. Her gaming background also "helped me understand playing the character and what the character means and what NPCs (non-player characters) are and things like that," she said. "It's the video game language."