.SimuLiu speaks on the importance of ShangChi’s creative team of Asian descent: “Not just cultural authenticity in an eastern Asian sense... but also speaking to the experience of growing up Asian in America.”
In my college, I was in a hip-hop competitive dance team. It was right in the heyday of “So You Think You Can Dance” and “America’s Best Dance Crew.” I was. I didn’t study for any of my classes because of it. What was your process auditioning for the show, and what was it actually like to be on it?Oh, my gosh. That show was the craziest whirlwind for an 18-year-old. I had known quite a few people that had done it. I grew up dancing with Travis Wall and Martha Nichols.
I think the greatest thing I learned is that it is a television show. You think it’s just about dance, right? No, it’s still TV programming. So it is casting and creating storylines and relationships and all this stuff. You definitely don’t know that at such a young age, or at least I didn’t. I love that you have a dance background, which makes a lot of sense because in your film, “Shang-Chi,” what got me initially was your physicality. I would assume there’s a lot of rehearsal that goes into something like that?When I got the part, they asked me about my martial arts background and experience, which of course I exaggerated because I wanted the job really badly.
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