I didn’t have $20 to give him, the Shang-Chi star said.
Alas, Lius spider-sense didnt alert him to the insidious plot that was about to unfold.
And that was mortifying for me, because I didn’t have $20 to give him.

Simu Liu and Spider-Man.Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty; Columbia/Everett
Core memory, clearly.
Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty; Columbia/Everett
Ferguson interjected to contextualize Lius history with the wall-crawler.
Yeah, I was, Liu confirmed.
So I knew his life.
I had empathy for him, except I wasnt going up to random strangers and asking for money.
It was an agreed-upon rate, and I was being hired.
He should really look into that.
You do what youve gotta do.
In the same interview, Liu also recalled getting in shape forShang-Chi.
I had gotten to Australia in October of the year before and basically just worked out.
I did nothing but work out.
I basically lived in the gym until we started shooting.
Unfortunately, production began in February 2020, which meant disaster when COVID-19 hit the set.
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