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 Spiderman

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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