Simu Liu Really Wanted To Be On This Reality Program At The Start of His Career

Before Simu Liu was a Marvel star, he wanted to be a reality star.

The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opened up during Variety’s Actors on Actors that he really wanted to land a spot on a popular reality dance program.

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It was So You Think You Can Dance!

“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 all about it,” Simu shared. “I didn’t study for any of my classes because of it.”

He added that it was “all I’ve ever wanted.”

While Simu didn’t land a spot on SYTYCD, he did turn those skills into a superhero starring role.

“I had done some work as an on-again, off-again stuntman, but if we’re honest, I think I was more of a dancer than I ever was a martial artist,” he said. “Pretty much from the moment I was cast [in Shang-Chi], I started working with trainers and learning how to move. I had such awful flexibility. My groin and my tendons were just so stiff. A big part of that early process was just bending my body and trying to rip those legs apart. But what was great too is it was my first movie.”

If you missed it, Simu wrote a memoir!