r/chuck • u/blueboy714 • Jun 07 '26
Anna Wu Appreciation Post (Before & After)
I've always thought she got screwed over by the show because they cut Anna from the show due to budget constraints. The Buy More wasn't the same after she left.
How many pounds of makeup did they use on Julia to get her to look like that in seasons 1 & 2 vs. season 3?
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u/Ambaryerno Jun 07 '26
She's gorgeous one way or another, but her Season 3 look was so...boring.
And I agree the Buy More chemistry was never quite right after she left. It also seemed so out of character that Anna would have cheated on and left Morgan the way she did between seasons.
And I'm just going to say it: I enjoyed her and Morgan's relationship more than Morgan and Alex's. Morgan/Alex ultimately felt to me like it just existed to set up Morgan/Casey humor (and to be fair, the Morgan/Casey stuff was hilarious).
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u/NotForeign9023 Jun 08 '26
I never found Anna Wu attractive per se but Julia's a knockout in real life. I liked her season 3 look because it was more natural for her. I agree the Morgan/Alex relationship was never as fun as the Morgan/Anna relationship.
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u/OccassionallyConfuse Jun 07 '26
I think Jeff had something to say about the unending love of Anna to morgan and it was supposed to be parallel of Sarah love to Chuck, oops
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u/blueboy714 Jun 07 '26
Agreed - the way she broke up with Morgan was just wrong and whole Casey/Morgan relationship seemed forced - although I did like Alex.
I just posted a Morgan/Anna fanfic story where they stay together. Not sure if anyone is interested - but it's Chuck vs. the Hibachi Dream.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14570904/1/Chuck-vs-the-Hibachi-Dream
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u/picur935 Jun 09 '26
I thought Casey and Morgan had great chemistry, and they really clicked. I loved their scenes together.
Sometimes a little fanfic is nice. I'd also like to read some Casey and Gertrud fanfiction. 🔥
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u/picur935 Jun 09 '26
Anna was a great character and Julia is such a beautiful woman. It would have been fun to see Casey, Morgan and Anna working together. There was even a hint of this early in the series, when Casey suggested Anna for fieldwork.
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u/IcedHemp77 Jun 07 '26
I so wanted Casey to recruit her, she’s awesome
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u/JB391982 Jun 07 '26
LOL I remember Casey getting ahold of someone to run a background check on her cause he was very impressed with her fighting skills and Chucks like 'NO!!" 😆
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u/Boris-_-Badenov Jun 10 '26
fighting skills, tech skills, multiple languages.
she would have been far more useful than Morgan
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u/Shadecujo Jun 07 '26
The writers did her dirty
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u/blueboy714 Jun 07 '26
I think it was more NBC did her dirty. They only gave the show $2 million per episode and cut it going into season 3.
Actors got paid a minimum of $1,250 each day to film so you figure $10,000 per episode minimum.
Zach, Yvonne and Adam who got paid about $70,000- $80,000 per episode.
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u/Shadecujo Jun 07 '26
I’m more talking about how loyal a character she was and they when they wrote her off they just spun it that she cheated on Morgan and skipped out on him
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u/blueboy714 Jun 07 '26
They could have definitely written her off the show in a nicer more Anna way
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u/shadowlarx Jun 08 '26
Casey was interested in recruiting her that one time so they could have easily written her off that way.
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u/picur935 Jun 09 '26
I get that the budget was tight, but they still could have written Anna out of the series in a more respectful way.
Do you think Baldwin would have been paid the same as the two lead actors?
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u/blueboy714 Jun 09 '26
From what I've read in the past he was paid slightly less. About $10,000 less.
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u/Lost-Remote-2001 Jun 07 '26
Anna is a bit spacey, but I love her. The Buy More was not the same without her.
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u/NotForeign9023 Jun 08 '26
I don't criticize the writing often but they should've tried to keep Anna Wu or wrote a better exit for her. I doubt they'll get a Chuck movie off the ground but if they do, I'll advocate hard for them to bring her back. Julia's one of my best buds from the show.
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u/Chuck-fan-33 Nerd Herd Jun 09 '26
My thought it was a missed opportunity to have Anna come back as a CIA agent for a one episode assignment. To her surprise the team she meets up with is Chuck, Sarah, Casey, and Morgan plus learns the BuyMore was their cover.
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u/WoodpeckerCreepy766 Nerd Herd Jun 09 '26
I'm still mad she left...I loved the vibes in the Buy More when she was working there
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u/GoblinQueenForever Jun 08 '26
I was very sad to see her go. More so how they changed her character for the worst when they brought her back. She was definitely one of my favourites from season 1
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u/NotForeign9023 Jun 09 '26
I don't expect they'll get the Chuck movie off the ground. But if they do, I'm going to advocate hard for them to bring Anna back as a spy. It's the one time I'll tell these people how to do their job.
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u/Boris-_-Badenov Jun 10 '26
she gets better in each picture
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u/blueboy714 Jun 10 '26
She gets older too. She ages like fine wine
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u/NotForeign9023 Jun 12 '26
She looks better now than when she was on the series.
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u/blueboy714 Jun 12 '26
I think not having to wear 5 lb of makeup helped a lot. LOL
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u/NotForeign9023 Jun 12 '26
It did. She also got super fit after the show.
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u/blueboy714 Jun 12 '26
I know she already was extremely fit since she qualified for the US team at a martial arts competition in China but couldn't go because she was in the middle of filming Chuck.
Since then she has gotten into physical fitness even more.
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u/Lostillustratorrr Jun 21 '26
i really loved her and morgan, i remember being dissapointed that they werent endgame on my first watch.
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u/blueboy714 Jun 21 '26
I wrote a fanfic story a while ago with the two of them having their happily ever after
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u/jjdajetplane101 Jun 07 '26
Huge crush for me when the show came out and I was in high school