Constance Wu details her life in her memoir ‘Making a Scene. Constance Wu’s new memoir, “Making a Scene,” is out now and she has been baring her soul. The actress is detailing how she dealt with the renewal of her show, ‘Fresh off the Boat’. Following the consequences of her infamous tweets, and much more.
The reason she did not want to return for the sixth season was because of harassment and intimidation. During her appearance at the Atlantic Festival in Washington, DC, she faced harassment and intimidation from an unnamed producer of the show. Constance avoided talking about what she faced during the first two seasons of the show.
After the success of the show, she claimed, she no longer worried about losing her work, which gave her the confidence to refuse the harassment and intimidation she had to put up with. She kept quiet about it because she thought that nobody needed to know. She feared it could have stained the Asian American producer’s reputation along with the show’s.
Constance describes the entire experience as traumatic. She said that she did not want to talk about it in the first place, but she realized that it was important for her to talk about it. Constance kept thinking about how ‘Fresh Off the Boat was the only show on network television in over 20 years starring Asian Americans. She did not want to tarnish the reputation of the show that represented their community.
Recently, the actress spoke to The Hollywood Reporter where she expressed that she resisted writing about what she went through on the set of the show. She said the experience was something she swallowed for a long time in an attempt to preserve something for someone else. The actress acknowledged that in doing so, she understands that she is a contributor to perpetuating a system that she no longer cares to uphold.
Constance said that she second-guessed her decision to talk about the harassment or the experience she faced while working on the show because she had a lot of guilt about the criticism and judgment. She said that the whole point is that people shouldn’t have had to go through it all. She shared that everyone believes that the memoir is about her time on ‘Fresh off the Boat’, but the fact is that it’s not; it was the last essay she wrote.
The actress, who will appear in the upcoming movie, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” shared that writing her memoir was cathartic for her. She said that it helped her to release some of the shame she felt because she made herself believe that she was trying to be a part of the “Boys Club.” She said that she needed to give herself some space to feel the wound.