So this is how those couple names are made. Meet AwkwaCena, starring in Jackpot! August 15.
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00:00Awkwafina, John, thank you for meeting with me.
00:03He said we had to.
00:04It's in your contracts, he said.
00:06Great, so what I'm about to show you
00:07is my plan to make Jackpot, coming soon to Prime Video,
00:10the biggest movie of the year,
00:11by making you the biggest name in Hollywood.
00:14What are you gonna do, like combine our names
00:16into some celebrity power couple name?
00:18Even better, I'm going to use your names
00:20to create a portmanteau.
00:22Paul, it's the French word for blending two names together.
00:25Listen, f***head, I'm trying to get eyeballs
00:27on this f***ing thing, so I don't need you two
00:28ripping me to shreds, all right?
00:30Yeah, sure, yeah.
00:31What are we saying?
00:32Christ.
00:33Now, what does every power couple
00:34in Hollywood have in common?
00:37They all had a catchy couple name.
00:39Tomcat, Spidey, and of course, Fish Pfeiffer.
00:42You know, that's when Fisher Stevens and Michelle Pfeiffer
00:45were dating in the 80s, remember that?
00:46Don't at all.
00:48But what I'm pitching is something new,
00:50something big, something platonic.
00:52The first platonic celebrity portmanteau.
00:56What, something like Awkwafina?
00:58That's good, actually.
01:00That's way better than what I came up with,
01:02which is John Kakofishina.
01:06It's awful.
01:07Okay, I'm going to take some personal time.
01:09Everybody watching, please enjoy Jackpot,
01:10premiering August 15th, a Prime video.
01:15I need a hero!
01:17Katie's the biggest jackpot of all time.
01:19Find her!
01:20What is going on?
01:21Katie, you won the lottery.
01:22Hero!
01:25Oh my God, look.
01:26Awkwafina's trending.