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Hey, I see.
Thank you so much.
I'm so glad to be here.
Welcome to Kate down.
And I'm thrilled to ask you 73 questions means so I'm very excited.
I'm actually run around stands of meetings right now, but I think we're gonna get work.
We're gonna make it work.
But before we dio how should I address you?
Wanna go by Nora or Aquafina for this?
That depends on your four.
Married or not.
So how did you come to land on Aqua Fina anyway?
When I was 15 or 16 I thought that the name Aqua Fina was great.
Hilarious.
I never thought anyone would ever call me that.
Got do now where everyone calls me that.
So that's good.
Did any other names make the list?
Kim gi gay?
You know, getting jiggy with it would make you gay jokes.
Doesn't roll off the tongue before.
Yes, please.
Thank you, Chris.
Something that you give on your Starbucks orders.
I like putting Michelle Pfeiffer all left in the fiber.
Throws him off a little bit.
What's the biggest difference between Nora and Aqua fina?
One has acid reflux.
The other one yells, Want What's the biggest similarity way?
Both love soup.
I love New England clam chowder.
What's your favorite borough in New York City?
I gotta say Queens Gotta say Queens, What's the most underrated thing in Queens?
Food and the diversity of the food and the availability of the food.
And what would you say is the best kept secret in New York City?
I can tell you cheat, answer.
Let's get out.
I'm gonna go check out.
If you want to come with Let's do it.
So as a born and bred New Yorker, what's your opinion of Los Angeles?
I like L.
A.
It's the same weather every day.
I get to drive everywhere.
It's great and was the best part of L.
A.
The best part is being near all kinds of bodies of water.
We got pools, we got oceans, we got reservoirs, we got a little lake.
Look at that.
You got your swimming pool right there.
But what's the worst part about Los Angeles?
I see the worst thing about being L.
A.
Is how big it is.
I once tried to walk from career down to Santa Monica, didn't work out so Long.
Day's journey into night after New York.
Where would you say you feel most at home?
Probably an abandoned school bus hurling insults.
The trees?
Okay, what's always found in your carry on?
I love a good spate facial sprints.
I love spritzing my face when it needs it.
Who's your dream travel partner?
Say Jon Snow.
I think he'd be a little reluctant at first, and then I would be really helpful.
Along the journey.
You had to write another City guide book.
What city would it before?
I love Seattle.
I love to explore Seattle coffee or to Mata Early Bird or NATO.
I'm a night owl that goes to bed early and wakes up early.
So I guess it our liberty.
What's a podcast you recommend for everyone?
Criminal shoutout.
Phoebe.
It's a great, great podcast.
You could make a cameo in any film, TV show or podcast.
What would it be?
What was that show?
Where, like the cousin comes in another country and he starts all kinds of trouble.
Balcony, about Bucky Balco's illustrators, perfect strangers that I love it.
OK, so pay me a picture.
What does one day and ah Kofinis life look like one day and just a typical day.
I, um I wake up probably wearing the same clothes that I've been wearing, and and then I spend an hour Teoh crying or laughing, and then I put on some shoes and get out that door.
But how does your day usually, uh, usually ends with me on Sepulveda yelling at birds in the Czech Jamal.
Thank you.
If you're wearing a mood ring, what color would be probably the green brown that all mood rings are?
What does that mean?
It means that mood rings don't work.
Thank you.
So, what do you most excited about at this current moment in life?
Right now?
I was gonna go to Jimmy John's.
I love the big Italian, so I'm excited about that.
But I'm excited to be here right now with you.
What?
You're putting off at this moment.
Probably going to Jimmy.
John's going that big Italian.
You could listen.
The one estimate for the rest of your life What would it be?
I'd say a flugelhorn.
No, no, no.
I don't have lungs for it.
Who is makes it onto your playlists, Jameer?
A quiet.
He always wiggles his way in there.
If you could shoot someone to cover one of your songs, who would it be?
The B 50 twos.
Hello?
That's a good one.
I love the B 52.
I just got to go up to my room.
We got on time.
We were told we have no.
Okay.
Okay.
So what's a rumor that you think you're funny to start about yourself?
That Tacopina is the best, and she has no flaws.
What's the last emoji that you remember using?
I like using the ambulance or the rocket that is aggressively blasting off.
And would you find yourself using Twitter or Instagram?
Or I love I'm more active on Instagram, but I like to get the tea in the news from Twitter.
Thank you.
I love you.
I remember watching her music videos when they first came out.
How did it feel getting attention For the first time, it was like a panic attack, reliving it over and over again.
But also, like, very exciting that most of it excited.
You were getting a ton of us.
Were you anxious or hesitant?
Starting out putting yourself up on the internet like that?
There are several voices in my head one Waas like, Oh my God, are you really gonna do this?
And the other one was like, Don't do it then the 3rd 1 was like Was like I mean, just do it.
And so I listen and I did it.
And here we are.
You ever read the comments on you?
Tube?
I once met an old Wiseman under a tree.
The tree had pickles and he said, I never read the comments, so I listened.
That's pretty specific.
Yes, Sakina, you're a rapper and actress, Internet personality.
Comedian, author, host.
Do you most identify with probably deejay photographer What Or who inspires most your lyrics?
The stars at night, the sound of waves softly crashing onto another.
Your voice.
Oh, thank you.
So what comes first?
The beat or the lyrics?
I gotta say The beat the beat.
Yale started the B.
It's easier for you to write reps or jokes.
I would say jokes, knock, knock jokes.
What was the most memorable job that you had?
Well, getting your comedy up and running that would be the vegan bodega taught me a lot about customer service.
A lot about retail.
There you go, come in.
All right.
And what was your favorite job?
My favorite was probably working at the video store when I was 16 years old.
What film did you rent the most from them beaches features Miller.
Deep Cut.
Sad movie, by the way.
Beautiful view it is.
Check it out.
Los Angeles Cockuccino.
When did you realize you could first make people laugh?
Um, I developed humor as a defense mechanism when I was, like, for actually after the passing of my mom.
I wanted to be an emblem of joy and not an emblem of sorrow That's touching was a particular moment.
You realize you wanna be a comedian?
When I was about five or six, I had this crowd rolling, right.
I remember going home at night, sitting awake as a child and wondering if, like, the laughs were riel or if they just felt bad.
You're so young.
Yeah, but there's also so much heart in your SNL monologue.
Thank you.
What did that experience feel like?
It must have been surreal.
It was amazing to be able to deliver a monologue that that, you know, took more of a serious turn.
I think it's one thing to imagine being on that stage another to imagine tearing up.
And that's what that moment meant to me for sure.
Well, have you met Lucy Liu since that monologue?
No, I'm meeting her on Saturday.
I'm really nervous.
What do you wear to that?
You know, she's so cool.
I don't like I'm gonna be, like shivering.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's so exciting.
What does it mean?
Being a woman in comedy What it means to be a woman in comedy.
I think being a woman in comedy means kind of building up.
That that collective camaraderie with the truths that sometimes sad and funny truths of being a woman but also using it Teoh empower using it to encourage using it to laugh, to further improve womanhood in general.
Are you annoyed of being asked that question?
I mean, it's fine.
I did sign.
I've heard through the grapevine.
You're creating your own show right now.
Were there any spoilers you can reveal?
Yeah, the end.
Everyone dies in the spaceship.
What?
Three words are used to describe a knock off in a set fun full of joy, Frolic, frolicking joyfully fantastic.
I also hear You're great at impressions.
No, Like we're here that, like, I'm not like that.
It's not like I just want to do that all the time.
But it's like you asked me about what I do.
I'm grounded.
It is like, really, how how you feel.
And if you want here one.
Okay.
How about this one?
Is the deep cut all right?
Yeah.
Where's the string beans?
Right way.
Let me do all the time.
It's better when I do it.
Okay?
You just drink me Dio.
I just loved the table gone now.
Name it.
Name it You doubt?
Now it's older, so forget it.
I have no idea what that was, but I loved Thank you.
Now you've worked with some amazing actors.
I have your dream ensemble cast me all of the dragons from game of Thrones.
I'm talking all all right.
And Carol Burnett.
Okay, Love Carol to if you stayed the highest like in oceans eight.
What would you want to steal?
Probably bagels, everything.
Bagels.
I feel like they always run out of everything.
Bagels.
I just want t I want to hold them all I want I want them all in a bagel room and you play a pickpocket in that film.
How method did you get with that?
It depends on what you consider method.
Because it's like I found this somewhere.
That's Are you serious?
How did you?
You know, you do a lot of risk talking.
So, you know, that's your number one for pickpockets.
You talk a lot with your risk.
I pulled this one full, Lex.
What a good brand.
Hate that is full looks.
Thank you.
So you received rave reviews about your performance in the farewell.
What drew you to that?
You know, I never thought in my lifetime that I would receive a script that was about an Asian American woman and the relationship she has with her grandma, as well as the journey of going from America to China.
It was It was incredible.
I can't believe I got it that day ending the shul Dong Nguyen Ma away.
And you're close to a grandmother and realize I am?
She's my best friend.
Did that make it easier or harder for you to tap this role?
It made it easier and that I know how to relate to that relationship and harder in that embodying the character.
You have to imagine losing your grandma, which was hard.
Describe her in three words.
Okay, here we go.
Fun Full of life.
Funny milk.
So crazy rich Asians was the first I would movie with an all Asian cast in 25 years.
What did that feel like to be a part of?
I think when we were out there filming it, we knew that we were part of something special.
But to what extent?
We had no idea it wasn't until he came back and we would sit through these screenings and see these kids come out crying.
Because that is the power representation.
You don't realize how important it is until he realized he'd been missing at your whole life.
Um, so, yeah, it was really special.
How close is your personal style that pay cleanse personal style pay clan.
It's not close because Palin shops couture Nora shops to for four.
Yeah, I get it.
I just made that up.
It was good.
Okay.
Comedy.
Thank you.
I heard that you have a nickname for Ken Jones.
Papa fina.
And what's an article of clothing you can't live without?
I'd say a full body spank one that goes to my toes to my neck.
What's your favorite look that you want on the red carpet?
I love pantsuits.
What trend would you like to see?
A little bit more of on the red carpet.
I think we need more latex specifically around the shins.
Are there any trends you regret trying?
Well, I got a one time, got short, angry bangs, and I'd run my fingers through it and it felt like a toothbrush.
Deputy daily skin care rituals I use is a serum.
And then I'll put, you know, maybe it's a moisturizer.
Right on top of that.
Maybe I'll maybe I'll put the moisturizer first on the ceremony.
Knows whose word do you trust the most When it comes The beauty products.
My makeup artist Shout out Karen body Love you.
What are your thoughts on dating apps?
So I misheard the question.
I mean, I'm a gem, and I, um and I love walks on the beach.
I also love Joshua Tree.
I can do all that, but I also like a nice night home.
Maybe watching Netflix catching up on the away.
I don't know.
Whatever you want to do?
What side are you?
What are you doing later?
You free or you?
Do you like Thai food?
You know, that's very tight place called pot.
Word down Hollywood.
I love all the little pant ages.
I love cats.
Have you seen cats?
I love me.
I love show to, uh I've only seen the trailer.
So what question do you wish you asked last?
Um Why?
Why do Why are you this way?
And what's a question that you wish you were asked more?
I want to be asked.
How are you doing?
Like, how are you doing, Like, really make eye contact with me out of the movie?
Absolutely.
And then of it.
Do you prefer answering questions or do prefer asking?
I like doing a bit of both.
I like being the interviewee and then also flipping it, becoming the interviewer.
Okay, all communities there.
Last question.
Question number 73.
Can I have my watch back?
00 wait.
Is that phone?
Sorry that your Is that your phone?
Sorry, can I?
Oh, it must be this one.
It must be this phone here.
The phone's not ringing.
Hello?
Yeah, yes.
How's your Mom, do it.
Sorry, I can't hear you on the mountain.
Are you on a mountain?
Hello.
Hello.
You know, just just keep the watch.
Oh, yeah, that was fun.