She now stars in "Crazy Rich Asians."

So your family is, like, rich?

We're comfortable.

That is exactly what a super rich person would say.

It's not a big deal, obviously.

I just think it's kind of weird that I had no idea.

I mean, you have a Jamba juice card.

You use my Netflix password.

You play basketball at the Y that kinda smells.

I really like that place, thank you very much.

And, yes, my family has money, but I've always thought of it as

theirs, not mine.

Please welcome Constance Wu!

(Cheers and applause) (Band playing)

Nice to meet you!

Nice to meet you!

Well, congratulations on the movie.

Thank you.

It's a big success already.

Reviews are amazing.

It's got, like 96% on Rotten Tomatos.

It's one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the year.

Did you know it was going to be such a big deal?

Of course.

Of course!

You're the one actress with no self-doubt in the entire world.

Of course.

Stephen: Well, this was--

No, I was -- I'm sorry.

Were you going on the next topic?

No, the same topic, you!

Oh, yes.

So what night is the premiere.

This is the premiere, which was -- I don't even remember.

Sometime in the past.

Yes.

Look at that outfit.

Extraordinary.

Thank you.

You know what you look that in this here.

What?

Like a crazy rich Asian right there.

(Laughter) Tell me about this dress.

I'm a dress fan.

Well, this dress is made by Robin Russo Couture.

Couture means a sewing machine never touches it, everything is

Stitched by hand.

So every one of the crystals is stitched by hand in such a way

that you cannot move when you're in it.

You had to be wheeled around on a dolly or

something?

Well, I had to do this in the car, and then i had to have

somebody take my feet, hold them out and have two men just lift

me up.

They had to do the same thing with Boris Karlov

When he played Frankenstein.

He had a board, he couldn't sit down.

I didn't have a board.

Did you go to the premiere in this?

No.

This was just for the red carpet?

Mm-Hmm.

That's nice.

I've got to get better clothes.

(Laughter) Now, the big hit movie is based

on the Kevin Kwan bestpselling series of books.

Yes.

Had you read the books before you signed on with

the movies?

I had read one of the books and i heard it was going to be

made into a movie.

So i was like, really psyched and I really wanted to do it.

Then it didn't happen for a few years, then i got my TV show

"Fresh Off The Boat", and I heard John M. Chu was set to direct it

and I got excited because I thought he could do a great job.

We had a meeting about it, then we realized they couldn't do it

Because the schedule -- Stephen: Because you had

your series.

Because they wanted to shoot in the fall and my series shoots

in the fall.

Stephen: TV time.

So I just let that go, and then one day i was on an

airplane and was feeling very dramatic, and i wrote a dramatic

email about, like, all the heart that i would put into his movie

if he just waited for me.

(Laughter) I didn't think it would work.

But here I am.

(Cheers and applause) Stephen: A lesson there!

Write e-mails.

Write e-mails.

(Applause) I've often said actors have to

be good liars, not because they're not good people,but

because acting is like lying.

You have to lie in auditions.

They say can you do X, Y or Z?

You have to say, well, of course I can.

What's the biggest lie you ever told in an audition?

I had an audition, it's an extra part, there was one line,

which is run away, but they wanted it to be in Korean.

Stephen: In Korean say run away.

Yes.

I'm not Korean and I don't speak Korean, I speak Mandarin

Chinese.

But it was only, like, tow words.

So, you know, I asked a friend, and they told me, I learned it.

phonetically and I put all of my heart into that one line, and

I -- Stephen: Do you remember

how to say it?

No.

(Laughter) It's a traumatic experience.

I understand.

So you did it.

What happened next is the casting director was, like, that

was so great.

Can you improv a little bit in Korean?

And I said, yep!

And then I just made noises.

(Laughter) I went, like -- literally.

Let's hear your Korean.

AAAHHH!

Oh!

AAAHHH!

And no doubt you

landed the parts.

I mean, I bet Koreans say AAAHHH!

In that way.

When they're upset.

Yes.

Sure!

I totally bought that as Korean.

You really looked like a Korean person not speaking Korean, just

being really upset.

AAAHHH!

Well, Constance

Yes, Stephen?

Stephen: It's been lovely to meet you.

It's been lovely to meet you.

Congratulations on the film.

Thank you so much for being here.

"Crazy Rich Asians" is in the theaters now.

Constance Wu, everybody

We'll be right back!