As “Crazy Rich Asians” is set to premiere in a few weeks, star Constance Wu reflected on the film’s gravity. In a post on social media, Wu looked back on her journey from starring on “Fresh Off the Boat,” the first network TV show to feature an Asian-American family in more than two decades, to being front and center in the first contemporary Hollywood film in 25 years to have an all-Asian cast ― the last being 1993′s “Joy Luck Club.”The movie, she wrote, is expanding the idea of what a lead actor looks like. “Before [‘Crazy Rich Asians’], I hadn’t even done a tiny part in a studio film ... I never dreamed I would get to star in one ... because I had never seen that happen to someone who looked like me,” Wu wrote. “CRA is changing that, just like [‘Fresh Off the Boat’] did.”

Source: Huffington Post August 01, 2018 16:30 UTC