Connie ~ Love ALL middle-aged ladies ~ Multi-Fandom blog ~ Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are my queens ~ Found me on twitter-ig: @sinnamonrolled
Connie ~ Love ALL middle-aged ladies ~ Multi-Fandom blog ~ Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are my queens ~ Found me on twitter-ig: @sinnamonrolled
Constance Wu photographed by Kat Borchart
I don’t think that identity is purely determined by race and if a story wants to focus on other things that are important to the narrative, that’s great. But it’s not harmful to say that ethnicity plays an important part in identity and that that part of the story matters. It’s not fodder for humor, it’s just another unique and beautiful element of humanity. Hopefully, we celebrate that. And we’re also a comedy! We want that comedy to be great and warm in our show, which Randall and I both found important.
Usually, I’ll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, ‘Let’s check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.’
Constance Wu attends the 21st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards
I was talking to a friend the other day about HBO’s Togetherness. I was like, “It’s a show about white people.”
And he said “Oh, come on, they’re just people.” But if somebody says my show is about Asian American people, nobody bats an eye. If you think about what that says about the normative context of TV, white people are allowed to exist as just people.
"ABC Upfront Opening Video
Interviewer: Can we hear a little bit of [the Jessica Huang accent] right now?
Constance Wu: No! [No?] Yeah, it’s not a party trick.Amazing.