Shang-Chi star Simu Liu uses his old stock photo to hit back at critics

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Liu posted a photo where he's one of three people laughing at a computer screen and captioned it, “Me laughing at the people who thought we’d flop'.

Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings star Simu Liu has something to say to the people who didn’t think the Marvel movie he’s fronting was going to be a hit – and he’s chosen a hilarious way to do it.

Liu posted a stock photo on Twitter on Tuesday – you know the ones we tend to see in Powerpoint presentations to depict office life or people at work – of three people looking at something on a laptop screen and laughing.And here’s the punchline: He’s one of the models in the photo.Shang-Chi, the first Asian-led Marvel superhero film, is a certified hit and broke records over the US Labor Day holiday with a US$90 million haul over four days.

It’s also the second-best opening weekend since the start of the pandemic; fellow Marvel movie Black Widow is first. The 32-year-old Canadian actor has mentioned in past social media posts that he did one stock photo shoot in 2014 for around $120 and the images have since popped up everywhere.he once wrote on Instagram stories.

In 2017, he tweeted an image of an accounting textbook that used one of the stock photos on the cover, pointing out the irony because he used to be an accountant.

 

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