Constance Wu’s ‘Crazy’ rise to Hollywood greatness

As Page Six revealed last week, Wu’s behavior has led to tension on the sets of “FOTB,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Hustlers,” with insiders calling the actress shorttempered, cold and rude.

They also say that, while filming “Crazy Rich Asians” in Singapore and Malaysia, she barely socialized with the rest of the cast, including Henry Golding, Awkwafina and Ken Jeong, who would go out drinking and singing karaoke every night.

A source who was on set told The Post: “Everyone was staying in the same hotel, and one night I saw this woman with rollers in her hair and wearing pajamas and a scowl on her face, carrying a bag of oranges, walking through the hotel.

“I realized it was Constance. Then the rest of the cast came bowling into the lobby, talking about where they were going out, and it was completely clear she wasn’t part of this.”

Back in Los Angeles, where she lives with her pet rabbit, Lida Rose, Wu hasn’t had a public romance since reportedly breaking upu with Ben Hethcoat — a TV director she started seeing around 2011 — in 2016. But she did refer to a boyfriend as recently as last September.

Wu, who declined to comment on her behavior to The Post, told The Guardian in 2018 that she’s very “impulsive and reactive.”

“I don’t think anything through . . . I have always been a person who is kind of outspoken, but nobody knew who I was before,” she said. “Now II havhave this weird thing called fame ... bbut if you have it, you might as wwell use it for something good. And the best thing I think I can do is help amplify the voices of people who don’t feel heard.”

IRONICARONICALLY, Wu almost had to turn down “Crazy Rich Asians” because it conflicted with her “FOTB” schedule. But she lobbied director Jon M. Chu and ggot him to move filming dates to accommodate her. “Before [‘Crazy Rich Asians’], I hadn’t even done a tiny part in a studio film,” Wu has tweeted. “I never dreamed I would get to ststar in one . . . because I had never seen that happen to someone who looked like me . . . The reason we are doing this is for the representation, for the quality of the story. When you stick to that, you can’t lose.” She is slated to star in theth film’s two sequels — “China Rich Girlfriend” and

“Rich People Problems” — which are supposed to film back-toback. However, insiders told The Post that there is potential trouble as producers as have yet to find a production partner in Asia.

In fact, “Crazy Rich Asians” actually bombed in China upon its December release, taking in just $1.2 million, according to Variety. For comparison, Sony’s “Venom” made $111 million in China.

Wall Street Journal film reporter Ben Fritz told NPR that this was in part because, “it’s really an Asian-American story. It is very much not an Asian story — certainly not a Chinese story.”

All this makes things difficult, The Post is told, for filming the sequel in Hong Kong, where much of the second sequel is set.

Still, Asian-Americans — indeed, American movie fans, period — are clamoring for the series’ return.

Last week, Wu’s blue Marchesa gown from the first film was donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington. Director Chu told the Los Angeles Times that he has seen moms make replicas of it for little girls, and that “it became a Cinderella dress for people.”

Yu hopes Wu’s own Cinderella tale turns into more of a “Rocky” story.

“The more roles that can show the different kind of experience that people of Asian descent can play,” he said, “the more it shows that you can take the bull by the horns of your own career — like Constance.”