We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Clay, Chris (27 October 2016). "Mississauga-raised actor stars in Kim's Convenience, lands role in NBC's Taken | Mississauga.com". Mississauga.com . Retrieved 6 July 2017. Yang, Rachel (11 March 2023). " 'Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens' K-drama episode wants to showcase 'hot Asian masculinity' ". EW.com . Retrieved 21 November 2023. Cai, Delia (21 April 2022). " "Let's Just Be Funny. Let's Not Teach People Anything": Ronny Chieng Will Use His Platform However He Sees Fit, Thank You". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 30 July 2022. So he convinced Jeremy Lin and Simu Liu to appear in the video as caricatures of their public personas. Films offered an escape as well as a place to escape to: going to the cinema would get him out of the house, which didn’t feel like a safe place. He loved Star Wars and Harry Potter films where there was “always a kid who didn’t come from the best family environment, but was told he was meant for great things and had to embrace his destiny”. Youth activists from across Canada to gather in Ottawa for National Child Day". UNICEF Canada: For Every Child . Retrieved 27 November 2023.

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Kit, Borys; Galuppo, Mia (11 February 2022). "Simu Liu Joins Margot Robbie in Warner Bros.'s Barbie (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 11 February 2022. As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious child flawlessly – he gets straight As, performs exceptionally in national math competitions and makes his parents proud. However, as time passes, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the path that has been laid out for him. Liu is also a filmmaker, producer, and writer. Liu's first work in this area was Open Gym, a short film he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in that debuted at the 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. He has directed, produced, and written several other shorts, including Crimson Defender vs. The Slightly Racist Family (2015). In 2016, Liu helped write Blood and Water, during which he helped break the story for the show and wrote an episode for its second season. [4] In 2017, Liu worked with Wong Fu Productions on their short Meeting Mommy (2017) , which he wrote and produced with Tina Jung. It was released in February 2018 on the Wong Fu Productions YouTube channel. [42] In 2018, he founded his own film production company, 4:12 Entertainment, and began developing long-form film projects under it. [43] [44]

Simu Liu is an actor and writer best known for his work on Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience. He lives in Los Angeles and Toronto. We Were Dreamers is his first book. Why Simu Liu wrote We Were Dreamers The cultural gap between Liu and his parents is huge. Whereas his teenage years were spent worrying about girls and whether he would ever be in an ‘NSync-style boy band, his parents had grown up during China’s Cultural Revolution. His mother, as the eldest child, had been a brilliant student but was sent away to work in rural camps for two years along with millions of other “intellectual” urban teenagers. When the universities reopened, Liu’s parents both took the entrance exams – his father cramming for a few weeks, his mother studying by torchlight after a day working in the fields – and against huge competition, both passed. They met at university in Beijing, where they both studied engineering. Ahsan, Sadaf (10 June 2021). "Simu Liu offers sneak peek at upcoming memoir". Etalk . Retrieved 12 September 2021.In early 2019, Liu guest-starred in the 100th episode of ABC's Fresh Off the Boat as a noodle vendor named Willie. [24] He also guest-starred in an episode of the TV series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens as Garbage Boy. [25]