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Simu Liu Quotes

born 1989 China

Simu Liu (born April 19, 1989) is a Canadian actor, writer, and stuntman who is well known for his roles as Shang-Chi in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and as Jung Kim in the award-winning CBC Television sitcom Kim's Convenience.

China
Actors
Martial artists

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Wouldn’t they want that first Asian superhero to be somebody who looked the part a little bit more? What I’ve always really appreciated about MCU superheroes versus elsewhere is that they are trying to disrupt the idea of what a superhero can be.

Even when I was a struggling actor, I was writing scripts, which were terrible, but I was fueled by a belief that I had to create the door. The right door wasn’t always going to open for me. Sometimes I was going to have to just crash through it or build one where there was no door before.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simu Liu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.