The Honor and Weight of Being a Role Model

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kelly’s guest is actress and author Constance Wu - you may know her from her roles in the breakthrough tv show Fresh Off the Boat and the blockbuster film Crazy, Rich Asians. Constance shares her experiences as an actress in Hollywood both on and off screen: the privilege and responsibility of representation, being a true artist, navigating social media and an incident which took her to a very dark place. Special thanks to PBS for supporting Tell Me More and this podcast series. You can watch this episode of Tell Me More anytime at pbs.org/kelly. Thank you also to the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What the world wants me to be is hoist, grateful, and heroic, maybe?
0:07.1	And what I actually am is emotional, wounded, and very grateful.
0:15.3	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:17.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about the honor and the weight of being a role model.
0:24.0	My guest is Constance Wu, who I interviewed for my PBS show Tell Me More.
0:29.2	You know her probably from her hit TV show Fresh Off the Boat or the dazzling blockbuster
0:34.8	Crazy Rich Asians.
0:36.8	She's had both enormous career success and some very dark moments, including prolonged
0:42.8	sexual harassment and a social media incident, which made her want to take her own life.
0:49.0	Join me for an important and revealing conversation with Constance Wu.
0:53.8	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:59.2	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:12.3	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:13.8	The theory of reputation is that if you can see it, you can be it.
1:18.8	But reputation might also be a way to occasionally signal inclusion without changing the power
1:24.6	structure at all.
1:26.6	Either way, we don't spend a lot of time talking about who's doing the representing and
1:31.6	how it feels sitting on their shoulders.
1:35.4	Constance Wu is almost always introduced as an Asian American actress, which is accurate
1:41.8	and a source of pride and a lot of pressure to put on one person to represent a billion
1:46.0	others with every move you make, every interview you give, and every tweet you post.
1:52.6	This is a conversation about the honor, impact, and sometimes life-threatening heaviness
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