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
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