In just a few short years, Simu Liu has gone from Canadian sitcom actor to international movie star. Despite how big his fame grows or how many achievement he racks up in Hollywood, for Canadians, he’ll always be ours.
In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, let’s run down just a few of the many reasons everyone loves Simu Liu. 1. He Manifested His Own Destiny It’s not everyone who can make a dream come true with a simple tweet, yet Simu Liu made it happen.
Way back in 2014, before he was even cast in his breakout role in “Kim’s Convenience”, Simu Liu issued a tweet targeting Marvel, asking when the studio was going to get around to introducing a superhero of Asian descent.
Five years later, he was announced as the star of Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”. When Marvel announced plans to adapt the “Shang-Chi” comic series for a movie in 2018, Liu once again tweeted at Marvel.
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