John Cena & Awkwafina Answer The Web's Most Searched Questions

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John Cena and Awkwafina, stars of the upcoming Amazon MGM film Jackpot! visit WIRED to answer their most searched for questions on Google. Does John Cena still wrestle? What role did Awkwafina win a Golden Globe for? Why does John Cena wear "jorts?" Why did Awkwafina choose a stage name? John Cena and Awkwafina answer these questions and plenty more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.   Director: Justin Wolfson  Editor: Cory Stevens Talent: Awkwafina; John Cena Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Brandon White  Production Manager: Peter Brunette Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark Talent Booker: Meredith Judkins Production Assistant: Carlos del Cid Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen Additional Editor: JC Scruggs Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds Special Thanks: No Roads Productions

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00:00Hey, I'm John Cena. I'm Awkwafina and this is the Wired Autocomplete interview

00:07I'm lactose intolerant. Fact. Gemini? Fact.

00:14You ready John? Yeah, these should be great. Does John Cena

00:19still wrestle? Yes, I do. I am still currently active in the WWE, not quite retired yet, although

00:25speculating on when that day will come because boy am I old. What is John Cena's famous quote? Oh

00:33Ask not

00:34What your country can do for you? Oh. Ask what you can do for your country? Oh, I thought it was... No, that was John Kennedy

00:41Was it that? Was it that you can't see me?

00:44Are you sure about that?

00:46Oh nice! Hit him with a double meme!

00:50Do you think that the answers are here?

00:55I think it's you can't see me. What is John Cena's

01:02Theme song? It's called The Time Is Now. It's a catchy tune

01:08From the

01:102005 release

01:12John Cena and the Trademark Time Is Now. So

01:15So that so there's that. Yeah. Who is John Cena

01:19In Suicide Squad? Oh, man, I

01:24am lucky enough to play a

01:27superhero called Peacemaker. Government name is Chris Smith and

01:31He is a highly trained assassin. He has been trained since a young age to be skilled in the arts of war

01:37As they would call it. Big fan of Eagly. We all are. Yeah, the best

01:44Okay

01:46Next board. What made Awkwafina

01:49Famous? I don't know. Was it My Vagina? Yes. My Vag? My Vag. It was My Vag. Was it My Vag?

01:56No, it wasn't. Well good, because that doesn't make you infamous

02:03Yeah, yeah Google knows the answer to that one. Who does Awkwafina voice?

02:08Oh, wow, Courtney, Angry Birds 2, shout out. I voiced a variety of

02:13Characters that I love a lot of some of which were birds. Hmm. There was there was kind of like

02:18There's like a couple of birds. I'd say the most powerful voice is yours. Oh, thank you so much

02:22I appreciate that. Voice is a wonderful human being. What did Awkwafina

02:27Win a Golden Globe for? I won a Golden Globe for The Farewell

02:32Which is a movie that you should check out

02:35Congratulations. Thank you. Check it out for God's sakes. A movie that definitely reminded people a lot about their own

02:41Kind of lives and relationships to their

02:44Grandparents or any relative that they had to encounter the unfortunate and unfortunate illness. It resonated with with the

02:51With a lot of with a lot of people which is always like cool. What is Awkwafina's

02:59Latest movie? Oh

03:01Well, I don't know if you guys heard of a little diddly named

03:05Jackpot

03:06First of all, I love Paul. Our director Paul Feig. Our director Paul Feig is

03:11So funny. Yeah, it is this big comedy, but then there is heart that comes out and in kind of

03:17Unexpected ways. I really like the way that it paints LA and and kind of like the in a kind of allegorical way

03:24Good bits in there. Yeah

03:27Non-stop action a story about like how messed up the lottery could possibly get

03:32Yeah, I'm like I read it and I was like, oh that could actually happen. It's on prime video

03:36It'll be on prime video. If you go to prime video, it says coming soon. Just wait a little bit longer

03:41We don't have a link yet. Yeah, just like me. It's coming soon. Yeah

03:46All right, let's get rid of it

03:48Okay, let's do it. Oh boy. What was John Cena's best year? What does that mean that my best years are behind me?

03:56What the fuck? Why wasn't I notified? I thought I was doing pretty good. What a

04:01Sick question. Yeah, I'd like to think that I'm living my best life. We're trying to my best years are ahead of me

04:06Hey, I'm hoping they are. Mm-hmm. Why does John Cena?

04:10Wear jorts. Do you wear jorts? I do wear jorts often often. Yep

04:15I think I've only seen you like in a suit including right now. So I also wear suits often

04:20Mmm, joy. I enjoy a suit. Yeah, the jorts are more for work. Mm-hmm. Yes

04:26So I've been wearing them for over 20 years and it started as a way to help define my character

04:31Mm-hmm. It was a character based in like hip-hop culture and hip-hop fashion and way back

04:3720 years ago was like the end of the

04:40large baggy jean short era and I've tried many other

04:45forms of shorts

04:46I always like to wrestle in street clothes because I think it sets me apart from the other performers and it also helps people attach

04:51To the personality. Mm-hmm, but cargo shorts and any other any other material except denim

04:57rip

04:58so we run a family program and

05:01For young folks to see the ugly bits too soon. It's just not a way to grow up

05:06Why does John Cena follow me on Twitter Wow?

05:12So if Google's asking or if the general public is asking the way that I use X is

05:18To engage in conversation and I believe you can't just talk to people you have to talk with them

05:24The way I use X is not only for a shameless self-promotion. Please watch jackpot on prime video, but also I put out

05:31thoughts that might be on my mind or

05:34Thoughts that will engage people everything nowadays is polarizing

05:37But I think they're their thoughts that people have a viewpoint on or a perspective and I follow everyone I can

05:43I'm over I'm following over 800,000 people at the moment. I just will continue to follow

05:47a thousand people a day because that's all X allows you to follow is a thousand Wow, and I follow people from

05:54Everywhere. I don't care like no one is off-limits your affiliations your beliefs

05:59I don't care because I want to hear all the voices. That's interesting. Cool. I'm ripping my jorts to that

06:06Yeah

06:07Okay, why does John Cena wear dog tags? Oh, so that that happened a while ago

06:12It was a little bit of an accoutrement that I used to wear

06:15Mm-hmm. Those have been shifted over the years fans used to give me the rubber bracelets that would say inspirational things or like hey

06:22I just made this for my neighbors and I used to tie them into my shoelaces

06:25So I used to go to matches like a hundred

06:27Rubber bracelets on both sides because if a fan gave me to what gave me one before an event

06:30I would have that my dog tags used to say the name of the names of my parents and my brothers

06:36And it was my cop-out way of saying like hey you guys are with me, but I wasn't really this is gonna get deep

06:42I wasn't really good at being a son and being a brother

06:46So rather than wear this thing that they could see on TV what I began to do for them was show up

06:52So I'm trying to be better at showing up and not being better at using a talisman to be like see I'm there

06:58So ditch the dog tags for more one-on-one time, right? Yeah, that's right on good board. Good boy

07:04Yeah. All right next board. Yeah

07:08Aquafina

07:10Between two ferns, so is that a question?

07:13Is that even a question? How was that? It was so fun. He's it's he's so funny. Yeah

07:19It's like a good time. Yeah, it's a good time quick

07:23He's very quick. Yes. All right aquafina facts Wow

07:29Again, I don't know if that's much of a question

07:33I'm lactose intolerant

07:35fact

07:36Gemini fact Capricorn rising fact

07:40I know I you know, I've fallen into a toilet in the dark a couple times

07:46opinion

07:49Aquafina

07:50tattoo

07:53Again I have to ask in the form of question. So aquafina tattoo or you know, what what if it's a tattoo of me?

07:59That but that goes on somebody else right is there someone out there with an aquafina tattoo aquafina

08:08Wax figure. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Do you wax your whole figure?

08:12No, okay. Cool. I don't know the question. Yeah sure the question. I have a whack. I have some wax figures

08:18Oh, you have a wax

08:20Wax figure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're beautiful. Thank you, man. If you

08:25There are two of them, yeah, one of them is in Florida actually two wax figures one in Florida, damn it

08:31All right. Well, that's that board. Oh, yeah

08:34Did John Cena?

08:37Really meet Tupac. Oh

08:40No, of course not. Oh, yeah, it's

08:44Completely made up by you Google or the Internet. We both guilty how John Cena taunts his opponents

08:50Ah, so I basically it's a long stalking process. I write them letters

08:57Years before we even see each other really under a pen name dick hammerbush and then I begin to subtly send Amazon

09:06Packages to their house mostly large bulk items like circus peanuts

09:11occasional lawnmower maybe a gallon of diesel fuel and then

09:16Eventually when we come face to face I just cower and run the other way Wow

09:21How did John Cena influence others Wow?

09:25I'm John, so I'm not others. So I don't know the answer to that question. I'm just me

09:32You're influential, but it's all interpretive, right? Some people be like that motherfucker. Yeah, that's some people like oh man

09:39Maybe he kind of helped me or like I don't know. I'm kind of indifferent to this thing, dude, whatever

09:44John Cena Ricky Stanicki singing you sang in Ricky's Nikki. I did I did we did some jizz jams

09:50I did a whole set on of covers of songs about jacking off

09:56Oh, so if you're into jack jams, you know, check out Ricky's to Nikki on prime video. It's it's fun

10:02There's more movie there than just jack off songs

10:04So if you watch it, you can, you know hide under the guise of like I wanted to see this movie

10:09But there's also a bunch of jack off songs. So enjoy him great

10:14Oh

10:16Why did aquafina change her name? Oh, you've changed her name

10:22not legally

10:24so

10:26Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a moniker

10:29What are we talking about?

10:31Aquafina

10:33It I am okay. Yeah, I haven't legally changed my name. So you didn't change me. No, that's it's such that's

10:40Whatever Google I know how many birds has

10:45Aquafina voiced I think like three or four. I was an angry birds, but I would I played Courtney who was a pig

10:52I know

10:54does

10:55aquafina

10:57Play the trumpet I do

10:59You do I do play the trumpet. Yeah, the sound really like really carries down

11:05To my neighbor's houses and they know exactly where that's coming from

11:08So it's just you know

11:09It's a little it's a bit of a vulnerable act for me to do it now because it's kind of like a it's really loud

11:14What style music you like playing trumpet? I like silver bells. I'll do like silver bells. Yeah, like Christmas carols

11:21I'll do Christmas stuff. Yeah

11:23Yeah, I wish that I was more like improving more around but it's good music. Yeah. Thank you. Will aquafina

11:32Be in more Marvel movies, I mean hit me up, you know, yeah, right

11:38Asking us these questions

11:40Come on, they're asking Google. Yeah, they're asking Google these questions. Yeah, I hope that that uh, you know

11:46We we can all reunite for Shang-Chi to

11:49When that happens, but yeah, I'd love to get you over in the DC side. Hey, that's it

11:54We made it through all the boards. Yeah, that was great. I've answered all of your questions. I've learned more

12:01You yeah, that's a great day. Oh, yeah, okay. How can you add what can you ask for more?

12:06Well, I can ask you we on behalf of us, please watch jackpot. Yeah, it's on prime video. It's coming up

12:12You're gonna love it. We've given you in pieces of our soul. Yeah, so watch jackpot. It's on prime video. Watch it

12:18Yeah, we're signing off. Yes

12:21Yeah, well, this is you do that one. I'll do this one

12:24Yep

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