新闻周刊:电影《摘金奇缘》如何改变亚裔美国人在好莱坞的游戏规则(4)

It’s personal for the 36-year-old Wu, too. Her own family’s journey began when her parents emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S., where her father found a job teaching biology and genetics at Virginia Commonwealth¹ University. She started acting² at 12, playing the mole³ in a community theater production of The Wind in the Willows⁴, and studied acting at the Conservatory⁵ of Theatre Arts at Purchase College of the State University of New York. After graduating, she struggled to find work in theater, nearly quitting acting to study linguistics⁶ at Columbia.

这也是36岁的吴恬敏的个人选择。父亲在美国弗吉尼亚联邦大学找到一份教授生物和遗传学的工作，当父母从台湾移民到美国时，她的家庭之旅就开始了，她12岁开始演戏，在社区剧院演出的《柳林风声》中扮演鼹鼠，并在纽约州立大学帕切斯学院戏剧艺术系学习表演。毕业后，她努力在剧院找工作，差点放弃表演，去哥伦比亚大学学习语言学。

What saved her career, in 2010, was getting dumped. “I never planned to do TV or film,” says Wu. “But because I was brokenhearted over a New York guy, I had to get the hell out of Dodge⁷.” The good news in Los Angeles: She was getting auditions⁹, thanks to Hollywood diversity quotas¹⁰. But Wu soon wearied of the token roles offered to minorities: the best friends, the funny assistants. “I don’t think I had a single TV audition⁸ that was for the No. 1 role.”

2010年拯救她事业的，是被甩。“我从来没有打算参演电视或电影，”吴恬敏说。“但是因为我和一个纽约人分手了，我得赶紧逃离这个鬼地方。” 洛杉矶传来了好消息：由于好莱坞的多元化配额，她得到了试镜机会。但是她很快就厌倦了少数民族象征性的角色：最好的朋友、有趣的助手。“我想我还没有参加过选女主角的电视剧试镜。”

Landing Fresh Off the Boat in 2015 was its own mixed blessing¹¹. “Even on that I’m not No. 1—that’s Randall [Park, who plays Wu’s husband]. I love him, and I’m glad he’s in that position, but Asian-American women so rarely get to center our stories. We’re always to the side or objectified.”

2015年参演《初来乍到》是喜忧参半的。“即使在这部剧中我也不是主角，主角是兰道尔·朴（在剧中饰演吴恬敏饰演角色的丈夫）。” 我爱他，我很高兴他处在这样的位置，但亚裔美国女性很少成为故事中心。我们总是站在一边或者客观化。

Wu was always Chu’s top choice for Rachel. The director, whose credits include the film Now You See Me 2 and the upcoming adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights, was impressed by Wu’s Twitter. “It woke me up. The articles she shares, and the interviews she does about Asian-American representation had a big influence on me when I was deciding what movies to make.” (Wu was among Time ’s 100 most influential¹² people for speaking out against sexism in Hollywood in 2017.) The two had a great first meeting, but when her Fresh Off the Boat schedule conflicted with the film’s start time, they reluctantly parted ways.

朱浩伟对于瑞秋这个角色的选择的首选一直是吴恬敏。朱浩伟曾执导过《惊天魔盗团2》还有即将上映的林-曼努尔·米兰达创作的音乐剧《身在高地》的改编版，这位导演对吴恬敏的推特印象深刻。“发人深省。在我决定拍什么电影的时候，她分享的文章和对亚裔美国人代表的采访对我产生了很大的影响。”（吴恬敏因在2017年公开反对好莱坞性别歧视，跻身《时代》杂志评选的100位最具影响力人物之列。）两人第一次见面非常愉快。但吴恬敏当时正在拍摄《初来乍到》，时间和电影的开拍时间冲突，所以不得不依依不舍地分开。

1 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 mole   

n.胎块；痣；克分子

参考例句：

• She had a tiny mole on her cheek.她的面颊上有一颗小黑痣。
• The young girl felt very self- conscious about the large mole on her chin.那位年轻姑娘对自己下巴上的一颗大痣感到很不自在。

4 willows   

n.柳树( willow的名词复数 )；柳木

参考例句：

• The willows along the river bank look very beautiful. 河岸边的柳树很美。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Willows are planted on both sides of the streets. 街道两侧种着柳树。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 conservatory   

n.温室，音乐学院；adj.保存性的，有保存力的

参考例句：

• At the conservatory,he learned how to score a musical composition.在音乐学校里，他学会了怎样谱曲。
• The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants.这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。

6 linguistics   

n.语言学

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。

7 dodge   

v.闪开，躲开，避开；n.妙计，诡计

参考例句：

• A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪，才没被车从身上辗过。
• The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。

8 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。

9 auditions   

n.（对拟做演员、歌手、乐师等人的）试听，试音( audition的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Find modeling auditions, casting calls& acting auditions, all in one place. 找一个立体感试听，铸造呼叫和表演试听一体的地方。 来自互联网
• We are now about to start auditions to find a touring guitarist. 我们现在准备找一个新的吉他手。 来自互联网

10 quotas   

（正式限定的）定量( quota的名词复数 )； 定额； 指标； 摊派

参考例句：

• In fulfilling the production quotas, John made rings round all his fellow workers. 约翰完成生产定额大大超过他的同事们。
• Quotas of the means of production are allocated by the higher administrative bodies to the lower ones. 物资指标按隶属关系分配。

11 blessing   

n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿

参考例句：

• The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
• A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。

12 influential   

adj.有影响的，有权势的

参考例句：

• He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
• He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。