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      • He was officially cast as Shang-Chi in 2019 and was announced at San Diego Comic-Con mere days after learning he had the part. Making Liu's Shang-Chi casting even more perfect was that, years before, he tweeted at Marvel asking to be hired for the part.
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  1. Sep 4, 2021 · Simu Liu makes his debut as Marvel's newest superhero in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings. Liu campaigned for himself to play Shang-Chi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was ultimately successful in seeing that goal realized.

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  3. May 19, 2021 · Simu Liu, the first Asian to lead a Marvel movie, talks about his journey from Canadian high schooler to star of Kim's Convenience to superhero Shang-Chi.

  4. Sep 3, 2021 · Simu Liu’s superhero origin story certainly isn’t lacking for drama: after breaking out as one of the stars on CBC’s Kim’s Convenience, the Chinese-Canadian actor decided to shoot his shot with Marvel on social media, with a tweet that ended up going viral once news broke some eight months later that not only had the two talked, but Liu ...

  5. Sep 4, 2021 · Simu Liu, who plays Shang-Chi, a character who was raised in China until his teen years and then spent a decade in the U.S., notes, “What I really loved is that moment where [Ronny Chieng’s] character is talking to Awkwafina’s character, and she’s like ‘Oh, no, my Chinese isn’t good.’

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  6. Sep 4, 2021 · In July 2019, Marvel Studios introduced 6,500 screaming fans to Simu Liu, who just days earlier had been secretly cast as the lead of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

  7. Dec 13, 2021 · Simu Liu is the first Asian superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings breakout star nearly took a different career path as an accountant to...

  8. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the 25th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) breaks new ground by introducing Simu Liu as its first Asian superhero on the big screen.