Constance Wu says she's worried about backsliding of Hollywood diversity amid DEI rollbacks
Actor Constance Wu is back on the big screen with her first role in three years.
Actor Constance Wu is back on the big screen with her first role in three years.
Wu stars alongside Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in “The Friend,” a feel-good dramedy about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to her late friend and mentor. The movie is out in theaters on March 28.
It’s a lighter role, but she’s also sharing some heavier thoughts.
The “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Fresh Off the Boat” star said she’s worried about potentially “repressive and backward” steps related to diversity in Hollywood amid all the larger national rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
“I have noticed that with recent TV and movies I’ve seen, representation is a little less important when it comes to casting,” Wu told NBC News. “This could be good in terms of focusing on story and characters, [but] it could be bad in terms of people reverting to limited imaginations of what story and characters could be.”
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