![]() “What was I supposed to say? That he complimented my smooth skin and shared harmless little jokes with me and pressured me to sign with one of the top agencies in Hollywood and touched me over my denim jean shorts?” she writes. While the actress alleges that she made a “feeble” attempt to tell her costars during the filming of season 2, the Eastsiders alum was scared that her story wasn’t “bad enough” to “merit my feelings.” 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. ![]()
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