Constance Wu on Her Essay Collection 'Making a Scene'

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After years of struggling and fighting for every role, actor Constance Wu had a popular TV show and a starring role in the hit movie “Crazy Rich Asians.” Then one day she sent out a tweet that nearly cratered her career. The backlash that ensued became the impetus for her new book “Making A Scene,” a collection of essays in which Wu reflects on the burden and responsibility of being a women of color in an industry run largely by men, her childhood as the daughter of immigrants who were not " tiger parents” and her journey as an artist. Wu joins us to talk about what it takes to make a scene and be heard. Guests: Constance Wu, Author, "Making a Scene." Wu has starred in the films "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Hustlers." She previously starred in the series "Fresh Off the Boat." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.3	After years of fighting for every role, actor Constance Wu landed the lead in the ABC sitcom fresh off the boat,
1:25.0	and a starring role in the hit movie Crazy Rich Asians.
1:28.5	Then she sent out a tweet that nearly ended her career.
1:32.1	The backlash was unrelenting and Wu attempted suicide.
1:36.4	In a new collection of essays, Wu writes about that and much more about her mistakes and
1:41.4	her triumphs and the burden of representation on women of color in Hollywood.
1:46.3	It's called Making a Scene. Constance Wu joins us after this news.
2:03.0	I'm Mina Kim. This is Forum. Actor Constance Wu's characters have run the gamut, a tiger mom on fresh off the boat,
2:09.3	a stripper in hustlers, and a college professor who suddenly learns her boyfriend Nick
2:15.1	Young is from a family of crazy rich Asians.
2:19.2	Yeah, you guys know them or something?
2:21.4	Hells, yeah.
2:22.7	The coos, the Youngs? I mean, who doesn't know who they are?
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