“Kim’s Convenience” star Simu Liu asks himself “every day” whether he should’ve spoken out last month on social media about his experience on the set of the hit CBC series, when he noted in a Faceb…
“In the spirit of speaking out about these issues, I really wanted — more than to cancel anybody or call anybody out — I wanted to make sure that future productions learn from our shortcomings and mistakes,” he continued. “And I outlined a lot of things that we as a cast didn’t do correctly.
That lack of meaningful representation translates to “white people writing about these characters [that are] cast as people of color, but there’s never a match in terms of the writers talking about their personal experience.” , an African-American woman, as its showrunner for Season 4. The assembled writers’ room is “70% diverse,” according to a source close to production, which the network sees as a step forward toward meaningful representation and believes will be reflected in the fourth’s season’s storylines.
For Liu, who has partnered up with Made/Nous to become an ambassador of its Seek More campaign, which promotes Canadian talent from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, believes that it’s also important for showrunners and producers to foster an environment in which everyone is able to contribute to the creative conversation.
The origins of the Shang-Chi character in Marvel comics are certainly fraught; when the character debuted, he was the son of Fu Manchu, an offensive 20th century relic who embodied a suite of pernicious anti-Asian stereotypes.
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