Variety<\/a>, Liu once again expressed his excitement to have assembled alongside the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four.\u00a0<\/p>\n“It was really awesome, exciting,” he told the trade. “So many actors that I grew up watching, and to get to kind of play in that sandbox with them\u2026it\u2019s a dream come true. I grew up watching superhero movies and wanting to believe that the outcasts and the nerds and the weirdos could find it in themselves to have superpowers and save the day.”<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s what 12-year-old me clung on to,” Liu continued.\u00a0“I still believe, for better or for worse, in the power of what those movies stand for today.”<\/p>\n
Despite often expressing frustration with Shang-Chi’s absence before being added to the Avengers: Doomsday cast, Liu remains a steadfast supporter of the superhero movie genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s kind of fashionable now to hate on it,”\u00a0he said. “I think there are valid critiques of the way that movies are made, the way that production budgets are handled, I think that there are a lot of valid things to say, but this idea of shitting on superhero movies as a genre, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know I because I am speaking as somebody who just absolutely loved watching them as a kid.”<\/p>\n
While some will argue that Liu has a vested interest in defending the MCU, it’s always great to see an actor from these movies speak out to defend them at a time when its detractors are taking such delight in crying, “superhero fatigue!”<\/p>\n
Despite not making any live-action MCU appearances since 2021, Liu has reprised his role as Shang-Chi in Marvel Animation’s What If…? and Marvel Zombies.<\/p>\n
Avengers: Doomsday\u00a0is set to be released on December 18, 2026, with\u00a0Avengers: Secret Wars\u00a0scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simu Liu made his MCU debut in 2021’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, though the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11445,146,85,46,397,74625,29259],"class_list":["post-139816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings","tag-simu-liu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}