Crazy Rich Asians

…Chu directed the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians. Starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, the film follows a Chinese American professor as she travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family and friends. Once there she learns more about herself and her identity as she tries to navigate different cultural…

… (2017) and the wildly successful Crazy Rich Asians (2018), box office numbers continued to decline. However, the genre found new success on streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu. Unlike larger Hollywood studios that produce films that have to compete with blockbusters at theaters, these streaming services are able to…

… in the lead role; and Crazy Rich Asians, the film adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kevin Kwan. That same year she also released her second rap album, In Fina We Trust, and became only the second Asian American woman to host the American comedy show Saturday Night Live since…

In 2017 Chan was asked to audition for the lead role of Rachel Chu in the critically acclaimed film Crazy Rich Asians, but she chose to go for the role of Astrid Leong-Teo. The elegant but silently struggling character had been Chan’s…

…landed the lead role in Crazy Rich Asians, playing Rachel Chu, a Chinese American economics professor who travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family. The film was a major hit. In 2019 Wu played a stripper alongside Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers.