Marvel star Simu Liu was first introduced to fans in 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings as the newest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe lineup, Shang-Chi. He reached a wider audience this summer by starring alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Warner Bros.’s Barbie. Liu portrayed another version of Ken, one who acts as the biggest competition to ...

Walt Disney World’s Candlelight Processional at EPCOT has returned with plenty of great talent to host it this year. However, one notable star recently canceled his appearance at the event. Marvel actor Simu Liu pulled out of the Candlelight Processional due to a health scare. Nevertheless, he made an appearance at another notable event days later. Simu Liu as Shang ...

We’ve seen several Cast Members (including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and the Frozen character Queen Anna) using sign language to speak with deaf Disney Guests during some recent meet and greets. Now, a Marvel superhero has joined in and begun providing this extra-special and emotionally-moving service to Guests in the deaf community who are usually made to feel left out! ...

Ten years ago on April 12, actor Simu Liu was fired from an accounting job that he hated. While struggling in the aftermath, the young college graduate started acting as an extra in films — and a whole new career began, leading to a starring role on the beloved series Kim’s Convenience and a blockbuster Marvel role as Shang-Chi. Simu ...

Shang-Chi actor Simu Liu is taking his character’s love of accessorizing with rings (ten of them, to be precise) and switching it to a love of accessorizing with Barbie dolls — maybe! The actor is in negotiations to join the A-list cast of an upcoming Barbie movie, according to Hollywood Reporter. Although celebrity negotiations can go sideways right up until someone ...

Until two years ago, Simu Liu was best known as Jung Kim on Kim’s Convenience, a Canadian series on Netflix about a Korean immigrant family running a small convenience store. But once Simu Liu was cast to play Shang-Chi, the first Asian superhero leading a Marvel movie, he became a household name — and now Marvel star Simu Liu is ...

The movie Crazy Rich Asians made headlines when it premiered in 2018 because it was the first movie with a predominantly-Chinese cast from a major studio in over 20 years. That news sparked a conscious effort in the moviemaking industry to start focusing more on Asian stories and Asian filmmakers (including actors), with one result being the Gold List. The Gold ...

If you’re one of the readers who loved the Chinese mythology and folklore that inspired Mulan (1994), the Southeast Asian mythology and mythical creatures from Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), the magical worlds and Chinese high fantasy in Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), or this mystical new novel, then you might also love the brand-new enchanting romantic ...

The Annie Awards are a series of prestigious awards in the film industry that honor achievements in animation (for animated feature productions or animated TV Media) and the Marvel Studios movie Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings that premiered earlier this year has just received an Annie Award nomination for the 49th Annie Awards! Walt Disney Animation Studio’s animated feature ...

While the new movie ‘Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings’ had its ups and its downs, Disney fanatics who love fantastical adventures were definitely drawn to the finale that involved an epic aerial fight between two dragons (well, a dragon and a draconic winged soul-hunting beast, if you want to get technical). If you were among the audience members who ...