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“Kung Fu Panda was a rare movie that got Chinese culture right,” Awkwafina said in an interview.

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“Kung Fu Panda was a rare movie that got Chinese culture right,” Awkwafina said in an interview.

Animation has featured Awkwafina before. She is a professional rapper as well, and she has provided the voice of several series, including Raya and the Last Dragon, The Little Mermaid, The Angry Birds Movie, and Migration. But the actor finds a deeper, more intimate connection with Jack Black’s character Po when he plays the corsac fox Zhen in Kung Fu Panda 4.

Awkwafina, whose mother is Korean American and her father is Chinese American, was born in New York and raised distant from her native Asia. But Awkwafina was raised by her paternal grandparents after her mother passed away when she was four years old. She was quite close to her grandmother, but she didn’t speak English. Therefore, in order to converse with her, the actor studied Mandarin. Interestingly, her great-grandfather built Lum’s, one of the earliest Chinese restaurants in Queens, after immigrating to the US in the 1940s. In her family, dumplings were just as frequent and revered as they were for Mr. Ping in Kung Fu Panda.

Awkwafina discusses collaborating with Jack Black on Kung Fu Panda 4, the franchise’s benefits for Asian Americans like her, and more in an exclusive interview.

“Watching Kung Fu Panda as an Asian American child growing up… At the time, I felt that there weren’t many films depicting the more traditional cultural customs that I had grown up with in my family. The relationship with his (Po’s) father, the love of dumplings, the filial piety that permeates it, and even the way it portrays the Valley of Peace physically is how I picture a hamlet. Therefore, it was great to see a film that appropriately honored ethnic traditions, Awkwafina explains in a special interview.

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Executive producer says Maggie Smith will be honoured in Downton Abbey 3.

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Executive producer says Maggie Smith will be honoured in Downton Abbey 3.

Throughout her career, Maggie Smith played a variety of memorable roles in films. She was part of Murder by Death, Sister Act and Hook.
Late star Maggie Smith will be honoured with a special tribute in the third Downton Abbey movie. As per Variety, executive producer Gareth Neame confirmed that the third film will include a tribute to both the character and Maggie Smith herself. Maggie died at the age of 89 on September 27.

“The loss of the Dowager, it now feels far more significant that you see actors playing characters mourning the family matriarch. But I also see actors mourning the matriarch of the show, and it feels more genuine and more meaningful.”

Throughout her career, Maggie played a variety of memorable roles in films. She was part of the ensemble cast in Murder by Death (1976), starred as the strict yet humorous Mother Superior in Sister Act (1992), and appeared in Hook (1991) alongside Robin Williams as Granny Wendy.

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Later in her career, she played a cantankerous retiree in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), delighting audiences with her wit and charm. Her television work was also impressive.

In addition to her Emmy-winning role in Downton Abbey, Maggie starred in My House in Umbria, which also earned her an Emmy Award. She was nominated for other television roles, including as Mrs Venable in Suddenly Last Summer and as Betsey Trotwood in the BBC miniseries David Copperfield, where she worked alongside a young Daniel Radcliffe before he was cast as Harry Potter.

Maggie’s personal life was marked by her long-lasting marriage to playwright Beverley Cross, whom she married in 1975 and stayed with until his death in 1998. Before that, she was married to actor Robert Stephens, with whom she had two sons, both of whom followed in her footsteps and became actors themselves.

Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens have enjoyed successful careers in film and television, carrying on their mother’s legacy in the acting world.

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