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"Barbie" Actor Simu Liu Has an Important Message for Hollywood: "Appalling"
Simu Liu criticizes Hollywood's systemic bias as Asian actors face fewer leading roles despite box-office successes, citing no Asian lead has lost $100 million, unlike white counterparts.
- On Sunday, Simu Liu took to Threads to respond to calls for more Asian romantic leads, urging, `Put some Asians in literally anything right now,` and addressing a backslide in Hollywood representation.
- Liu pointed to Asian-led hits like Minari, Farewell, Past Lives, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Crazy Rich Asians, and Shang-Chi's over $432 million gross, arguing studios are shifting course despite success.
- Replying to a Facebook compilation, Simu Liu wrote `Way to attempt to put us against one another.` and cited social-media reports showing Asian actors struggling to find fulfilling roles, adding `Every single one a financial success.`
- Liu framed the situation as systemic when he said `We're fighting a deeply prejudiced system` and told Variety earlier this month he `should probably be more scared` of backlash yet remains outspoken.
- Having criticized filmmakers in 2022, Liu also noted `there's something about the internet that makes people just crazy,` linking online publicness to hostile commentary.
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Marvel star blasts 'deeply prejudiced' Hollywood for 'f---ing appalling' Asian representation
Actor Simu Liu called out Hollywood's "backslide" of Asian representation in their films in a heated post to Threads on Sunday, sharing several social media reports about Asian actors struggling to secure leading roles."Put some Asians in literally anything right now," he wrote. "The amount of backslide in our representation onscreen is f---ing appalling. Studios think we are risky."Liu, who starred in Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the T…
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