After all, Golding, Awkwafina, and the rest of Crazy Rich Asians' large ensemble cast have been traveling with this movie for a long, long time. Finally, other people get to see — and evaluate — the movie for themselves. Awkwafina, who plays the movie’s hilarious best friend extraordinaire , likens the experience of reading movie reviews to people judging your baby. “It is like having a baby that you think might be ugly and everyone’s like, 'No, that baby is a model. Put that baby in a commercial right now,’” Awkwafina joked in an interview with Refinery29 (at the time of the interview, Crazy Rich Asians still hovered at 100%).