"Fresh Off the Boat" Star Constance Wu on Bunnies & Dream Guest Stars

"Fresh Off the Boat" Star Constance Wu on Bunnies & Dream Guest Stars
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The lovely and talented Constance Wu stops by the YH Studio to chat about her hit fish-out-of-water sitcom "Fresh Off The Boat" just as it wraps up it's debut season! She dishes on breaking character during filming and reveals her guest dream star, plus she talks about her waitressing days at BOA and what one particular celebrity would always order!
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Look at them babies. This is you. They've never come out for anyone. They just wanted to pop out for you. If I had a nickel, for every time a guy told you that his knees fucked out, it pants for you. I'm Oliver Trevena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with the lovely Constance Wu. How are you?
I'm good. hurry. We were talking about the way I sit. Is there a problem?
Well, that's what this whole show is about. The way I sit. Experimenting different ways for you to sit. For us to sit. Now you've adapted a very strong female pose with a couple of props.
I didn't even adapt it. This is just my nature.
You walk like that as well.
Yes. With the legs crossed like this. I don't even walk. I float.
Your team member just said I've got chunky knees. It's sticking in my head now.
Well, they're so chunky that they burst a hole. They burst out. I'm like the Incredible Hulk. I'm the British Incredible Hulk.
Okay. Let's move on. Let's move on. Let's move on on to more things which is relevant as well. Fresh Off The Boat. Yes. Which I'm kind of that as well. Fresh Off The Boat.
Yeah. You look it.
I do. Do I? I've got no tan yet at all. You got good t- actually.
They're not mine. That's actually the best
They're not mine. And this interview is going great. We're going to edit out everything so far. Um but yes, Fresh Off The Boat, ABC, we just had the finale.
Yes. It's done. It's finished. Oh, it went by so quickly and yeah, we're excited to show you guys more. Yeah.
Um the finale is kind of the opposite to what the season was about. Now you're trying to get back your roots.
Right. We worry that we've assimilated too much. Right. Into this Orlando, Florida culture. Right, into the American Dream. Mom, why did you get me re-assigned? I had Jamaica. I was on Easy Street. Everything gonna be irie. Jamaica's so much cooler than China. You know what's cool? A wall you can see from space. China. Birthplace of kung fu. China. Gunpowder, the compass, gambling. China, China, China. What is that? Chicken feet is for good fertility. I don't want good fertility.
It's hilarious, but I look at it and I'm like I don't know how you guys keep a straight face during filming. It's that that's tough. It must be tough, right?
Uh-huh, especially when I'm acting with uh Lucille Song, the woman who plays Grandma, cuz she will never break character. She will just be intense and screaming at you in Chinese. And I just I lose it. She's so funny. And Randall, my co-star, he never breaks character, but sometimes when he's acting with Grandma, he just he loses it. He loses it.
I'm not surprised. Yeah. Is there been a favorite episode for you so far in the first season?
Um, yeah, I like the uh the Shaqu Fu episode.
Okay. I think that's the one where I did my pimple work. I would say do it again but you're tied up with the mic so we won't get you to do that right now. Right. And I don't think it can be contained in this studio.
You'll be surprised what we can contain in this studio.
It's not your knees.
Not my not my knees. Look at them babies. Look at them babies. This is you. They've never come out for anyone. They just wanted to pop out for you. If I had a nickel, For every time a guy told you that his knees fucked out, it pants for you. It's terrible. Terrible. Terrible.
Um Fresh Off The Boat is based off uh anyone the famous chef and his memoir.
His memoir. Loosely based. Loosely based off of you know, this has been my jeans. Loosely. Exactly. I mean that book, his memoir, spans his whole life. Right, right. Like up until adulthood so obviously we can't force little Hudson to grow up and become in season 25, you might still be going.
That's what the Hollywood rumors are. 25 seasons. I read the Hollywood Reporter, it says they're looking for 25 season. Yeah. Um you're quite a tight knit family. The kids on it are hilarious as well. Um any fun set stories that you could fill us in on? Do you play pranks or anything?
No, but I I have a bunny rabbit and I bring her to set every day.
You have a bunny rabbit?
Yeah, I bring her and she just roams freely around my trailer.
Not that it's I'm going to get hate by the bunny rabbit committee, if there is one. But I thought bunny rabbits just stay in cages at home. I didn't think they were animals that you actually take like dogs.
Well, if you mistreat them.
Okay. Not that I would do that. I've never owned a bunny rabbit, but now I know that you take it with you.
Yeah, and you well you don't have to take it with you, but they're kind of like cats.
Do you have a leash?
No. Okay. But they they're litter trained. So they just roam around the house and do their thing. They're kind of messy though, cuz they you know.
What's what's the bunny's name?
Her name is Lyda Rose. There is a song. Okay. Called Lyda Rose. Okay. From a play called The Music Man, which is one of the first plays I did when I was a kid.
Brilliant. Yeah, cuz you've been in this acting world for a long time.
I haven't been paid for it for the longest time, but I've been doing it.
But you trained. You've done it properly. You trained and yeah. Did it properly. Before you hit the big time on Fresh Off The Boat, you were you were a waitress at BOA.
I was. Yeah.
Yes. I I waited on Paris Hilton a lot. There you go. She's great. Yeah.
There you go. She loves uh flaming yon. The expensive kind. Yes, and she gets chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Look at that. Yeah. And she still keeps that slender figure. Oh she does. Chocolate chip cookies. How to be Paris Hilton. Espresso. To have that metabolism. Shot of tequila. There you go. Goes down perfect.
You've had some interesting guest stars as well. Um is there anyone next season that if you could choose anyone, anyone in the world, they could be dead. This is just going to make it harder. But your dream guest star on the show.
Steve Buscemi. That's a good one.
It's a good one. I can't even say anything after that. Steve Buscemi. I'm not even going to ask anything after that. Just wrap it up with Just have the episode just be his face. Just Steve Buscemi. Just looking at the camera. What would you scream? You're Steve Buscemi.
I don't know. Okay, that's good. They declared it a sentence.
You also learn quite a bit on the on the show cuz you know, you've you've made the move from DC. You've gone to Orlando and you're all learning this way of American dream. What would you say that if you were on the show and you're going to learn something, what would you like to learn?
You know, part of finding your own identity is experimenting with sort of different things when you grow up. Whether that's, you know, trying out macaroni and cheese instead of having, you know, your mom's stinky tofu or whatever.
Yeah. I shouldn't have just eaten fish and chips every day. Oh, well, I thought fish and chips are good.
Fish and chips are good. Yeah, with malt vinegar.
Wow. Well done. Of course. Well done. So many people don't even You've just you've just shut me there. I mean, you were doing well anyway, but you've just gone through the roof. You've gone through my you want to You've gone through my pants.
My favorite movie is a British comedy called Withnail & I. Good one.
Is are you sure you're not British?
I'm not sure.
I knew I recognized you. We went different schools together. We went different schools together. Yeah, of course. All people everywhere should watch Fresh Off The Boat. You already have. It's over. Should watch, you know, the next season. The next season, which is soon. It's a great mystery.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Constance Wu
Featured guest discussing her show
- Oliver Trevena
Interviewer at Young Hollywood
- Lucille Song
Plays Grandma on Fresh Off The Boat
- Randall
Co-star on Fresh Off The Boat
- Hudson
Character on Fresh Off The Boat
- Paris Hilton
Celebrity Constance Wu waited on
- Steve Buscemi
Constance Wu's dream guest star
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