Rachel Chu I'm so Chinese I'm an econ professor with lactose intolerance.
Played by Constance Wu 
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) · 23 quotes
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) · 23 quotes
Most-quoted character in Crazy Rich Asians (2018): in 12 of its 23 quotes
Most scenes with: Nick Young (6)
Wow, I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden, and a movie theater. JFK's just salmonella and despair.
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So, what about us taking an adventure east?
Rachel Chu [thinking for a minute]
You wanna get pork buns in the East Village. That's what it is, isn't it?
I was actually thinking of further east.
Rachel Chu Like Queens?
Like Singapore, for spring break? Colin's wedding. We've been dating for over a year now, and I think it's about time people met my beautiful girlfriend. Come on, I'm Colin's best man. Don't you wanna see where I grew up? Meet my family, my Ah Ma?
Rachel Chu So, if you have all this family there, why are we staying in a hotel? Aren't good Chinese sons supposed to stay with their parents?
Well, because A: I'm not that good a son, and B: I just want you to myself, just for a bit.
Rachel Chu So your family is, like, rich?
We're comfortable.
Rachel Chu That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.
Rachel Chu [Incredulous]
You have a cocktail dress in your trunk?
I'm not an animal, Rachel.
Rachel Chu I thought I was here to meet your family, go to your best friend's wedding, eat some good food. Instead, I feel like I'm a villain in a soap opera who's plotting to steal your family fortune.
What happened?
Rachel Chu I mean, I met Amanda. She told me that everyone here thinks that I'm the evil person that prevented you from moving back to Singapore last year but, when I didn't even know you were supposed to come home.
You have every reason to be upset.
Rachel Chu I'm not done yet! There was also the gutted, bloody fish that Araminta's friends left for me in my hotel room on my bed next to the words 'Catch this, you gold-digging bitch'... written in big fat serial-killer letters.
Rachel Chu [as they bury the gutted fish from her hotel room]
This weekend was supposed to be mani-pedis, cocktails served in pineapples. This definitely wasn't on the menu. Why would Araminta even have friends like them? They're so mean.
[as they fill in the hole]
Well, you grow up your whole lives together, you make excuses for people. Specially the morons.
When we first met, you had no idea who I was, who my family were. You didn't care!
Rachel Chu Yeah, I don't care about that stupid stuff.
Well, exactly. You are so different from all of the women that I grew up with.
Rachel Chu Why didn't you tell me about my father?
Kerry Chu
My husband wasn't a good man. He hurt me. But an old schoolmate of mine helped me through things and we fell in love and I got pregnant with his baby, that's you. I was so afraid my husband would find out and kill us both, so I just took you and I ran to America.
Rachel Chu Thanks for meeting me here.
Rachel Chu [Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table]
Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien.
Rachel Chu [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat]
My mom taught me how to play. She told me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.
You asked me here, I assume it's not for a Mahjong lesson. [Shows her tiles] Pong. My mother taught me too.
Rachel Chu I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?
There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.
Rachel Chu Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?
You're a foreigner. American – and all Americans think about is their own happiness.
Rachel Chu Don't you want Nick to be happy?
It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.
Rachel Chu You don't know me.
I know you're not what Nick needs.
Rachel Chu [pauses]
Well he proposed to me yesterday. [pauses] He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good. [pauses] Don't worry, I turned him down.
Rachel Chu Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. 'Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.
Rachel Chu I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough – because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. [Choking back tears] I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day – when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Hua's are blooming, and the birds are chirping – that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.
Rachel Chu [on the plane]
Nick, what are you doing here?
I'm flying back to New York with you.
Rachel Chu Don't make this harder than it already is.
I always imagined what me proposing to you would be like. You know what? I had it all planned out.
Passenger
Right behind you.
Don't mind me. I bring you to my favorite spot on the island. There's a hidden trail that I used to go to as a child. And there's a cove there that opens up to this beautiful lake.
Passenger
[bumps into Nick]
Sorry, dude.
Give me a second, coming through. When the sun hits the horizon, I get down on one knee. And the rest of the world would fall away. Because it would just be you and... Because it's just you... [to a passenger struggling with her bag] Sorry, I can help you with that. [to Rachel] Right, stay there. [to a passenger] Yeah. You too? Watch your fingers. Everybody okay? 'Cause I just need 30 seconds with this woman. Thank you. [climbs across seats] Coming through. Sorry. I know this is a far throw from a hidden paradise. But wherever you are in the world, that's where I belong. But I... [kneels] Rachel Chu... [holds out a ring] Will you marry me? And make me the happiest man in this world?
Kerry Chu
Yes! Yes! She will marry you!
Rachel Chu Yes! I love you.
I love you, too.
Rachel Chu This is gonna be some flight back to New York.
Well, I was actually thinking about staying one more night.
[they kiss]
