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Today everything is fame, glamor and recognition for It’s Liu, The actor who gives life to the new superhero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, But what no one knew is that in his adolescence he had to play another character of the House of Ideas “not to go hungry.”
Simu Liu from Spider-Man? The history
Born in China, but living in Canada since the age of 4 with his family, It’s Liu not only is he an actor, he also has an academic degree because he graduated from the Richard Ivey Business School, Although in a new country his life was not so opulent, so he had to combine jobs.
His career as an actor took so long to take off and with bills to pay, that of Asian roots he used to disguise himself as Spiderman at children’s parties to earn a few bucks and be able to bring food home, all this much to get the role in the MCU movie number 25, Which is in its Phase 4.
“The decision to disguise myself as Spiderman was solely financial, I had to pay the bills, I couldn’t run out of money and when you’re a struggling actor you don’t care much about doing that kind of thing. I thought if I was Spiderman at the kids parties I would work as an action actor as well, ”he admitted in the middle Mnexsp.
Shang-Chi, the best Labor Day premiere in the US
Released on the weekend of Labor Day in the United States, the film of the first Asian superhero in the franchise Marvel it had enormous acceptance in the economic one, according to provisional figures of the specialized company / signature Relationships with the exhibitor.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings raised $ 71,400,000 between Friday and Sunday, a record for a Labor Day weekend.
The film, set in an imaginary China that mixes giant creatures, mysticism and kung fu, is the first of Marvel’s studios to have an Asian director (Destin Daniel Cretton) and a cast also dominated by stars from this continent, headed by the Chinese-Canadian It’s Liu.