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“I loved everybody on that crew, and I loved working on that show, but it had that history of abuse, that it started with, and even though I handled it after two years, I was looking forward to a clean slate.”Ī rep for 20th Television, which produced Fresh Off the Boat, had no comment. “A few people knew was happening, and to go to work every day and see those people who knew that he was sexually harassing me being ‘buddy-buddy’ with him felt like a betrayal every time,” she added. “I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse,” she told The Atlantic. I don’t have to stain the reputation of the show.'”
And, so I thought: ‘You know what? I handled it, nobody has to know, I don’t have to stain this Asian American producer’s reputation. “Because, 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, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this particular producer. “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. In an interview with The Atlantic, Wu said she had not opened up about this situation in the past due to fear of consequences. The Crazy Rich Asians actor also said there was another argument during the second season of Fresh Off the Boat over attending a film festival but by then, Wu felt empowered to cut ties with the producer in question. Wu also revealed that during a sporting event in 2015, the producer touched her thigh and grazed her crotch. And because I was 30, people thought I knew what I was doing. I was thrown into this world,” Wu told NYT. “ Fresh Off the Boat was my first-ever TV show.