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11-27-2017, 10:24 PM
http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/give-her-more-lets-talk-about-constance-wu.php
When you search for ‘Constance Wu’ on Google, the predictive search adds up a couple suggestions for further exploration. It offers a search for her age, her spouse and her social media, all of which are par for the course when it comes to Googling a celebrity, but then there is ‘Constance Wu accent.’ On her hit ABC comedy series, Fresh off the Boat, the Virginia born actress has a Taiwanese accent to play Jessica Huang, a 1st generation immigrant to America. Seeing Google offer that result up reminds you of just how often nosey people must have asked Wu if her accent was her ‘real’ one, or what she ‘actually’ speaks like, or if she can just show off her accent from the show for a bit as if it’s a comedy sketch. Asian Americans make up as large a percentage of the population as Italian Americans, but their level of on-screen representation is so minute that some people just expect Wu to not ‘actually’ be American. Over the course of three seasons on Fresh Off the Boat (the show started its 4th season this year), the first network comedy centred on an Asian American family since Margaret Cho’s All American Girl in 1994, Wu has become one of the breakout stars of network TV. In a field where Asian American women are few and far between, stuck in bit-part roles or their talents dismissed by condescending critics as appeasements for a China driven box office, Wu has carved out her own path that is fresh, exciting and utterly without compromise.
When you search for ‘Constance Wu’ on Google, the predictive search adds up a couple suggestions for further exploration. It offers a search for her age, her spouse and her social media, all of which are par for the course when it comes to Googling a celebrity, but then there is ‘Constance Wu accent.’ On her hit ABC comedy series, Fresh off the Boat, the Virginia born actress has a Taiwanese accent to play Jessica Huang, a 1st generation immigrant to America. Seeing Google offer that result up reminds you of just how often nosey people must have asked Wu if her accent was her ‘real’ one, or what she ‘actually’ speaks like, or if she can just show off her accent from the show for a bit as if it’s a comedy sketch. Asian Americans make up as large a percentage of the population as Italian Americans, but their level of on-screen representation is so minute that some people just expect Wu to not ‘actually’ be American. Over the course of three seasons on Fresh Off the Boat (the show started its 4th season this year), the first network comedy centred on an Asian American family since Margaret Cho’s All American Girl in 1994, Wu has become one of the breakout stars of network TV. In a field where Asian American women are few and far between, stuck in bit-part roles or their talents dismissed by condescending critics as appeasements for a China driven box office, Wu has carved out her own path that is fresh, exciting and utterly without compromise.