Constance Wu: “Discomfort Is Often Where You Find Growth”

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Actor Constance Wu chats about why she made the stylistic choice to write “scenes” in her memoir, the reason she took a step back from Hollywood, and why the Asian-American community should focus more on “whole human representation.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	Pfft!
0:03.5	Now!
0:04.5	Closing small.
0:06.5	Welcome to the Danish show.
0:07.5	Thank you.
0:08.5	Good to be here.
0:09.5	Um, let's start with the question that I've been trying to figure out the entire time reading
0:14.2	the book.
0:15.2	Just the title of the book.
0:16.2	Why am I so red?
0:17.2	No.
0:18.2	Making a scene.
0:19.2	You know that there's so many different interpretations where there's like making a scene.
0:21.7	You know, you're saying good making a scene, bad making a scene, there's a fool making
0:24.0	a scene.
0:25.0	You write a memoir about your life.
0:26.3	That is the title.
0:27.3	Why that?
0:28.3	Well, you kind of got it because it's supposed to have multiple meanings.
0:33.3	There's two overarching themes in the book.
0:35.1	One is how art is very healing and for me, art was always doing theater.
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