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Constance Wu is talking out a few horrible expertise she had with a producer whereas on Fresh Off the Boat.
According to The New York Times, the 40-year-old actress alleged in her upcoming memoir Making a Scene that she was sexually harassed by a senior member of the manufacturing workforce throughout her first 12 months on the ABC sitcom. In the e book, she claimed that from the beginning, the producer – who she solely recognized by an preliminary – had exhibited controlling conduct reminiscent of demanding “that she run all her business matters past him and telling her what to wear.” Constance stated she tolerated it for some time as she was apprehensive in regards to the “consequences” if she advised anybody about it. As she defined to the newspaper:
“‘Fresh Off the Boat’ was my first-ever TV show. I was thrown into this world. I don’t have parents in the industry. And because I was 30, people thought I knew what I was doing. It made me paranoid and embarrassed.”
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In one occasion, the Crazy Rich Asians star recalled she and the producer attended a sporting occasion collectively in 2015, the place he allegedly “placed his hand on her thigh” and grazed her crotch. She requested him to cease, and the pair seemingly dismissed the horrible second as if it by no means occurred. So, so terrible…
But as soon as season two of Fresh Off the Boat started, Constance stated she felt extra empowered to say “no” to the producer. Eventually, the 2 stopped talking to one another once they acquired into an explosive argument over whether or not Constance would attend a movie pageant with him. At the Atlantic Festival on Friday, Variety reported that the Hustlers star additional opened up about why she didn’t converse up in regards to the scenario with the producer sooner, saying:
“I kept my mouth shut for a really long time about a lot of sexual harassment and intimidation that I received the first two seasons of the show. Because, after the first two seasons, once it was a success, once I was no longer scared of losing my job, that’s when I was able to start saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this particular producer. And, so I thought: ‘you know what? I handled it, nobody has to know, I don’t have to stain this Asian American producer’s reputation, I don’t have to stain the reputation of the show.’”
She additionally addressed her controversial tweets about how upset she was over the present’s renewal for a sixth season again in 2019, stating that these statements had been most likely a results of the harassment and damaging on-set experiences. Constance advised The Atlantic on Friday:
“I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse. A few people knew [the harassment] was happening, and to go to work every day and see those people who knew that he was sexually harassing me being ‘buddy-buddy’ with him felt like a betrayal every time. I loved everybody on that crew, and I loved working on that show, but it had that history of abuse that it started with, and even though I handled it after two years, I was looking forward to a clean slate.”
In July, Constance revealed that she disappeared from Twitter for 3 years as she was struggling together with her psychological well being and had tried suicide following the extreme backlash. Just one other vital reminder that you just by no means know what somebody goes via or what they’re battling behind the scenes. We admire Constance for sharing her reality.
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