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Marvel star Simu Liu says that he intentionally downplayed a few of his skills within the MCU’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” so as to keep away from sure stereotypes. The admission got here throughout a candid dialog with Kevin Hart for the comic’s sequence “Hart to Heart.” Hart requested Liu, “I heard that martial arts was not in your background, that you just needed to be taught it for the film, and that you just did like 70, 80 p.c of the stunts that have been concerned for the film?”
Liu responded honestly, admitting that he does have some background in martial arts, however there is a cause why he does not talk about it a lot. “I will be trustworthy with you,” he started. “I purposefully downplay how a lot martial arts I knew, as a result of I’m afraid of that narrative. Of like, ‘The martial-arts man . . . they solid the martial-arts man to do the martial arts . . . he is Asian . . . after all!'”
However regardless of his worry of being typecast, Liu did prepare in martial arts earlier than he discovered fame — one thing he mentioned was essential to him as a struggling actor in Canada. “I imply after all, hell yeah I did martial arts, you realize? I took the stunt coaching, I used to be in school, I used to be doing gymnastics and parkour,” Liu instructed Hart.
“I wish to problem folks to see me as an artist. The identical means that Ryan Gosling picked up jazz piano for ‘La La Land,’ that’s the means that I picked up martial arts for this film.”
Nonetheless, Liu desires viewers to know that there is extra to him as an individual and an actor than his martial-arts expertise. “I wish to problem folks to see me as an artist. The identical means that Ryan Gosling picked up jazz piano for ‘La La Land,’ that’s the means that I picked up martial arts for this film,” he mentioned. “It’s not as a result of martial arts is all I do, it isn’t as a result of martial arts is all Asian folks do and that is all they’re good for, and if you see an Asian individual on display screen they higher be doing martial arts — it isn’t that. However this was a personality. And so I did the coaching that was mandatory.”
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