He didn’t have much kung fu experience before Shang-Chi His tweets bore fruit on 20 July 2019 when Marvel announced him as the lead of Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings during their presentation at San Diego Comic-Con.Īnd once he was announced as the lead of the film, Liu hilariously posted another tweet with a “LOL” in his 2014 post, where he first asked Marvel to make a film with an Asian-American superhero. When Marvel was thinking about translating Shang-Chi to screen, he persistently tweeted about it in 2018. In 2014, way before Marvel’s Shang-Chi was conceived, Simu Liu asked the studio about launching an Asian-American superhero. Things to know about Simu Liu The actor ‘made’ Shang-Chi happen with his Twitter posts Image credit: © 2021 – Marvel/Disney/IMDb Since Shang-Chi, Liu has played prominent roles in movies such as One True Loves (2023) and Simulant (2023). He has appeared as a guest on the reality show Selling Sunset (2021) and voiced Lah Zhima in Star Wars: Visions (2021) and Adult Hubert Wong in The Simpsons (2022).
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The star made a name for himself with the CBC sitcom Kim’s Convenience (2016–2021). He has also appeared in various series such as Nikita (2012), Warehouse 13 (2013), Blood and Water (2015), Taken (2016), and Fresh Off the Boat (2019). Liu was quite famous even before he landed the role of Shang-Chi. In the movie, Liu shares screen space with three Asian cinematic legends - Yuen Wah, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Michelle Yeoh, who, in 2023, became the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). But Liu is best known to worldwide audiences as Shang-Chi, the first Asian superhero to headline a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film.
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