The Life of Constance Wu

She's the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants who catapulted into superstardom after starring in "Crazy Rich Asians." This is Constance Wu.

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00:00We do want to create a movement so that, you know, people feel represented and heard and understood and valued.

00:16I grew up with so many people thinking that, you know, foreign films were representative of my culture,

00:25and just because our faces looked the same. And I was asked to sort of think that that's enough.

00:55My character, Jessica Wong, is based on a real-life woman who was a mom in the 90s to three boys.

01:17And the show is about sort of our transition from living in a multicultural city, Washington, D.C.,

01:24to a very suburban Orlando. And, you know, sort of how we fit in amongst that.

01:54Asians have not seen themselves represented in mainstream cinema in over 25 years. So it's about time. It's past time.

02:17I think it's going to make some of the younger generation fired up to tell their own stories.

02:21And now with the way media is very digital, you can do that. So that's what I think is going to happen. And I'm excited about that.

02:29Hard-working people lost everything. And not one of these douchebags went to jail. Not one. Is that fair?

02:54This is exactly the type of thing and project I'm looking for. A movie, a project that is about women, by women,

03:02and is about a group of women whose society has judged and marginalized, and we got the opportunity to humanize their stories

03:12and talk about their friendships, talk about their past. This is what art can do. It's the greatest potential of art.

03:20It's to humanize this experience that somebody else might not have known. And to do it with people who know the subject.