Constance Wu, star
of the show Fresh Off the Boat, an immigrant comedy, said recently that she
faced sexual harassment on the sets of the show from an unnamed producer. Wu
was speaking in an interview ahead of the release of her memoir Making a
Scene. “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,” Wu said.

“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,” Wu, who
recently starred alongside Chris Pratt on The Terminal List said. She added
that she did not go public about the harassment because she did not want to stain
the reputation of a show that was representing Asian Americans.

“That show was
historic for Asian Americans. It was the only show on network television in
over 20 years to star Asian Americans and I did not want to sully the
reputation of the one show we had representing us,” she said.

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Fresh Off the Boat
is an American sitcom that delves into the life of a Taiwanese immigrant family
trying to make a new life in the United States in the 1990s. The TV series was
created by Nahnatchka Khan and is loosely based on the life of chef Eddie Huang.
Huang was an executive producer of the film.

Alongside
Constance Wu, the show stars Randall Park, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, Ian
Chen and Lucille Soong – all members of the Huang family.

The show opened on
ABC in 2015 and received positive reviews from critics. Fresh Off the Boat is
the first network television sitcom to have Asian Americans in the lead. The
show ended in February 2020 after six seasons.