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You guys, it's Bullseye, I'm Guy Burrana and I'm in for Jesse Thorn.

Constance Wu plays the character of Jessica Huang on ABC's Fresh Off the Boat.

The series is based on Chef Eddie Huang's memoirs, which means that Wu is sort of playing

Huang's actual mom.

I met her.

She does weird things like she consults psychics and she reads Stephen King and she tells me

about her dreams where she saw a golden highway with a basket of eggs at the end of it that

were meant for her sons.

But she's not when she's saying them to me in real life, this is not scripted, you know.

She means them because she believes in her family and she believes in her sons and

that type of love is something that we don't see on network television because I think

the wide American way of a mother's love is something that's sweeter, spoonful of sugar,

mix the medicine, go down and her method of delivering it is not that way but it's still

motivated by the same core.

It's Bullseye.

Coming up, I'll talk to Constance Wu about diversity in TV shows, how getting dump

can bolster your career and learning to play comedy.

One thing I realize is I think there are a lot of actors who are really charming and so

you can see them trying to hit the joke and you let them get away with it because they're

so charming, I don't have that charm.

I don't, I know, I know, I don't because people don't want to get away with it.

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