![]() ![]() Beyond “filming five days a week, 12-plus-hour days” and constant press that left her “drained,” Wu was also a victim of sexual assault from one of the show’s producers, she claims. Portraying the character, however, ended up being the least of the Crazy Rich Asians star’s issues during her time on the show. Wu’s character, Jessica Huang, was a mother - and 10 years older than Wu herself, which the Terminal List star refers to as a devastating “blow” to her “vanity” at the time. In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesįOTB, which showcased the lives of an Asian-American family in Florida in the ’90s, ran from 2015 to 2020 and starred the Golden Globe nominee alongside Randall Park. The Virginia native, who wanted to dive deeper into her craft after playing an “easy and pleasant” character on a sitcom for so long, shares in her memoir that being on a mainstream comedy was initially a “soft spot” for her while initially taking the job. I stopped looking at all social media, but I couldn’t escape.” I became a headline, a meme, a springboard for righteous opinion. “Seeing someone who was always so practiced suddenly lose control-was entertainment. ![]() “Then there was the schadenfreude that always follows a big social media scene,” she explains. I had kept my head down and tolerated the discomfort for so long, trying to preserve everything for everybody else, and I just couldn’t do it anymore.”Īt the time, Wu took to social media to express her frustrations - “so upset right now that I’m literally crying” - and remembers that the “backlash was immediate,” with people flooding the comment section to call her an “ungrateful bitch.”Īfter the controversy made headlines, Wu says she “ apologized to the rest of the cast, crew, producers, writers, and executives at the first table read of the season,” calling it one of the “bravest” things she’s ever done. My feelings were overwhelming, a tsunami crashing through my body - betrayal, helplessness, like they’d lied to me. Suddenly, everything I’d held back for so long flooded the atmosphere. The fresh start I’d looked forward to would have to wait,” the Hustlersstar writes in the book, which is out on Tuesday, October 4. “Because of my studio contract, I’d have to drop everything else - all the exciting jobs that the network had given us permission to pursue - and return to FOTB. After finding out about the show’s renewal on Twitter, I called my manager and he too was shocked,” Wu, 40, recalls in her new memoir, Making a Scene, about the moment in 2019 when the ABC sitcom was picked up for another year. Constance Wu is opening up about her rocky experience starring on Fresh Off the Boat- including her criticized reaction to the show being renewed for a sixth and final season. In that way the movie throws back to '90s indies or '00s mumblecore titles, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.Īs Ben, Min makes an impression and holds the camera, and the actor isn't afraid to make him shabby and rough around the edges.Sharing her story. "Fresh Off the Boat's" Randall Park, making his directorial debut, gives "Shortcomings" a light polish, even as the script by Adrian Tomine has the characters speaking like they're all in various stages of graduate-level theses on gender studies, cultural identity and racial roles in society. Ben's fumbles through his love life lead him back to Miko, and to some hard-learned lessons about himself. When Miko moves across the country for an internship and proposes they take a break, Ben pursues the new ticket taker at his theater, Autumn (Tavi Gevinson), and later Sasha (Debby Ryan), whom he meets through a friend. And his dreams of being a filmmaker are doing about as well as his run-down arthouse theater, which is moving about eight tickets per screening and is facing shutdown. His best friend Alice ("Joy Ride's" Sherry Cola) has her own life to live, and is eyeing a move to New York. His girlfriend, Miko (Ally Maki), is tired of his objectifying of classic blonde-haired, blue-eyed ideals of beauty, and is maybe tired of him as well. "Shortcomings" spends the next 90 minutes or so examining Ben and presenting itself as the anti-"Crazy Rich Asians." It's a hyper-talky and overly literate comedy which, if it has a shortcoming itself, is in its presentation of characters as stand-ins for beliefs or ideas rather than as living, breathing people.īen is the Japanese American owner of a Bay Area cinema who doesn't realize it yet but is at a crucial turning point in his life. ![]()
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