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Shang-Chi 2 Update: Simu Liu Feels No Pressure For Sequel, Jokes That Marvel May Have Trouble Getting Michelle Yeoh After Her Oscar Win

Marvel Studios has yet to share more details about Shang-Chi 2

 

 

Shang-Chi 2 Update: Simu Liu Feels No Pressure For Sequel, Jokes That Marvel May Have Trouble Getting Michelle Yeoh After Her Oscar Win

Simu Liu is relaxed about the Shang-Chi sequel.

The Chinese-Canadian actor will reprise his role of Xu Shang-Chi (or Shaun) in the follow-up to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which was announced in December 2021 but doesn't have a release date yet.

There's also no word on when it'll start production even though Destin Daniel Cretton is again back as writer and director.

And this time round Liu doesn't feel the pressure as he did the first time. 

In an interview with Collider, Liu, 33, said: "Generally, you're under the most pressure when something is unproven. There's really high stakes. I remember shooting the first movie and feeling like, 'Okay, we're essentially crafting this character, every single day.'

"The stakes could not be higher because it was a 100 bajillion dollar movie budget. I feel like those are the circumstances under which the pressure would be the highest."

Liu, who is set to star alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie, continued: "Going into a sequel feels exciting. It doesn't necessarily feel like there's a pressure to perform or a pressure to exceed. It feels like we've established a world and there's just something really nostalgic and exciting about returning to that world that we've spent so much time ideating on and thinking about.

"And then, we're getting to revisit some things, but also show the viewer new things. We'll deliver all of the amazing action that we were celebrated for on the first movie, but then hopefully explore new sides of Shaun's character and the characters around him."

Liu also quipped that it may be difficult to get Michelle Yeoh to return as Ying Nan, Shang-Chi's mentor, following her Oscar-winning performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

He said: "That is, of course, if we can still afford Michelle Yeoh. She's on top of the world and just the queen of everything."

Before Barbie rolls out on July 20, Liu has the romantic drama One True Loves, out Apr 13, where he plays a guy caught in an unusual love triangle between his fiancee (Hamilton's Philipa Soo) and her thought-to-be-dead husband (Elvis' Luke Bracey).  

— BANG SHOWBIZ 

Photos: TPG News/Click Photos

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Photo: TPG News/Click Photos

 

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