Constance Wu is setting the record straight.
In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, the “Hustlers” actress opens up about the controversy she sparked earlier this year when she went on a now-deleted Twitter rant saying that she was “upset” and crying over the renewal of her show “Fresh Off the Boat”.
“I had this moment of heat where I got upset because I had to give up a job I had been looking forward to and had been chasing for a while,” she explains.
Wu received plenty of backlash for her tweets despite posting a lengthy apology on social media, but people she works with had her back.
“It was moving to me how many people from the show reached out to me, and even on set… to say, ‘Just so you know, we love you and we know who you are, and you didn’t deserve any of that stuff’,” she recalls.
“Because they also know that I’m an actress — I can be dramatic,” Wu continues. “I mean, that’s our toolkit, right? I’m dramatic. I’m emotional. But they also know that that doesn’t represent me because they have a hundred episodes of behaviour that proves otherwise.”
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Looking back on the situation, Wu believes she has now learned a lot about her role as a public figure.
“I’ve had a back and forth about it. It’s the line between being a role model, but also authenticity,” she says. “There is an expectation of the way that I ought to behave, and not just of perfection but of graciousness.”
Wu adds, “And I am grateful. But am I elegant? No. I think I can be verbally eloquent sometimes, but as a human, am I an elegant person? No.”
