19 September 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nConstance Wu has criticised Andrew Barth Feldman over his casting in the Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending.<\/p>\n
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Constance Wu has criticised Andrew Barth Feldman over his casting in the Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending<\/p>\n
\nThe actress, 43, says she is \u201cso disappointed\u201d after a series of conversations about Asian American representation, and shared her sentiments in a statement on Instagram revealing that she and Andrew had spoken on the phone about the controversy. <\/p>\n
\nShe wrote: \u201cIt was a peaceful call and we spoke at length, followed up by several emails\/texts. It made me hopeful. But after a recent voice memo he sent me, all I can say is that I am so disappointed in him. And feeling pretty discouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAndrew joined the cast of the South Korea-set musical on 2 September for a nine-week run opposite his girlfriend Helen J Shen. <\/p>\n
\nHe replaced Darren Criss, who took a hiatus from the show on 31 August and is scheduled to return on 5 November. <\/p>\n
\nDarren, who is Filipino American, previously led the production in the role of Oliver.<\/p>\n
\nConstance added: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to keep speaking up when it feels like no one is listening anymore in this new era. It\u2019s exhausting and increasingly lonely. Once again, Asian Americans are left unheard, unacknowledged, invisible. Sadly, we\u2019re used to this. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cA dozen or so folks bts at @maybehappyending have remained silent perhaps in the hopes that this will all fade away and you know what? It has. Your plan is working, guys \u2013 I heard your box office doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWriters Hue Park and Will Aronson responded earlier, saying in a joint statement: \u201cWe wrote a show about robots so we could engage more intimately with the most basic human questions of love and loss, creating the roles of Oliver and Claire to be avatars of these universal questions. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cThey were meant to be products created by a global company, and so never bore Korean names, even in the Korean version of the show. At the same time, we understand that for many in the AAPI community, the makeup of our opening night cast became a meaningful and rare point of visibility. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve heard how strongly people connected to that representation, even if it wasn\u2019t our original intent, and how this casting decision has re-opened old wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nConstance also referenced a petition launched by B.D. Wong, who wrote on Instagram on 10 August that Andrew\u2019s casting was \u201ctaken as a hard slap in the face of both the Asian actor community and the Asian audience.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nB.D. added more than 2,400 people had signed the petition, which he described as \u201ca detailed articulation of our POV.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nConstance concluded: \u201cI\u2019m sorry to the thousands of people on @wongbd\u2019s petition whose signatures he and the producers have yet to publicly acknowledge. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cAnd honestly, I\u2019m sorry ABF that you\u2019ve been (perhaps unfairly) saddled with this responsibility by your producers. But sometimes we don\u2019t choose our responsibilities, they choose us. So the question that remains is: what are you choosing to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMaybe Happy Ending, which follows two robots in Seoul who form an unlikely romance, was written by Aronson and Park and won six Tony awards, including best musical, in June. <\/p>\n
\nAndrew\u2019s limited run as Oliver continues until 1 November.<\/p>\n
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