Simu Liu Dishes On Googling Himself & Where Canadians Need To Vacation This Winter

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Actor Simu Liu sat down with Narcity’s Brooke Houghton to talk about everything from Googling himself to where Canadians need to vacation this winter.

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00:00That was like my top three dreams as a kid was like be the hands of Cheadle be a superhero and be a

00:07literal doll

00:09Brooke i'm three for three. So i'm i'm done a happy man. Yeah, great. Great. Perfect. Hold here

00:15You can't even see me. Can you give me a little bit of something with the fingertips?

00:18Maybe a bit of a waggle a waggle a waggle

00:22uh

00:24Yeah, yeah, yeah that do that but with your fingertips

00:28Yes, yes, hey sumu, thanks so much for taking the time to chat with narcity

00:32So you got a nice little background there. How are we doing? I got a nice little spread

00:36Like I thought i'd spruce up the place with a little bit of orange

00:38I thought I thought it needed a little pop of color as you can see. The walls are very gray

00:43And um, and then you know funny thing I had all these cheetos lying around

00:48And so I just started I just started arranging them and um, three hours later

00:52This is what I this is what I came up with so I love it

00:55It feels very fitting, you know now you're the face. Sorry. Sorry the hands of cheetal

00:59So your apartment kind of has to reflect that I feel

01:02Yeah, yeah, what made you want to be the hand of cheetal?

01:06Uh, who doesn't who doesn't want to be the hand of cheetal?

01:08I feel like that was my that was like on my dream board

01:12That was like that was like my top three dreams as a kid was like

01:15be the hands of cheetal be a superhero and be a

01:20literal doll

01:21and um

01:23Brooke i'm three for three. So i'm i'm dying a happy man. You've been traveling so much. You're in toronto

01:28You're in la you've gone to some amazing destinations around the world

01:31With winter coming up for torontonians if they could have one vacation, where should they go?

01:36Where should they go? Where should they go? Um, that's a really good question

01:41Um, you know, it depends i'm a big one of my favorite things to do is to plan itineraries for myself for other people

01:48um, you know, i'm

01:50My instinct would be to say go somewhere tropical, you know, go to go to cancun, you know go to um

01:57last, uh last winter I went to anguilla

02:02which which is

02:04Crazy, I maybe two years ago didn't even know that anguilla existed

02:07But it's got some of the most beautiful beaches and amazing people you'll ever meet

02:11but if you're a cold weather person and you love

02:15The slopes then go to trombone, you know go to trombone go to whistler stay in canada

02:19Um do a little apres ski, you know what I mean? Um

02:23It all just depends on what you want. But the most important thing is that you replenish yourself

02:29You know rest your body and your soul and your mind

02:34and um

02:35And and have a do it with a little bit of cheeto on your fingertips. You know what I mean?

02:40We did it simu. Yeah basic cheetos. That's a big deal

02:43Yeah, there's just like a couple of things in the contract. I want you to peruse. Yeah, sure

02:47Whoa, so I can't sign autographs you hosted the junos again this year

02:51What did you think of the person who crashed during avril lavigne's presentation?

02:55It takes a lot of something to go up on a stage a nationally televised stage with uh with a canadian sweetheart

03:02and then to just

03:04you know

03:06Show it all

03:07I wouldn't be able to um, so so

03:11Yeah, I I mean it definitely it definitely takes

03:13Something amounting to courage or or you know that fine line between courage and stupidity

03:18I don't know where she was

03:20I think she was all over that line and over on both sides and just hop stepping but

03:25But you know what I what I really was surprised by is how long

03:30The security let it go on for because I saw it happening

03:34Backstage and I was like, oh my god

03:38And then like it's still it just went on for another 30 seconds

03:42And I and I wonder if it was because it was just so brazen that the security guard was like

03:47Oh, well, this must be

03:48a part of the show

03:51But I mean for the for those of us who knew that it wasn't I think we were just like horrified just standing there

03:57um watching it happen and I know that that particular woman had a had a cause that she was there to you know,

04:04to promote, um, I don't know what that had to do with breasts, but um

04:09You know, I I was something about that message I think maybe got lost in the nudity of it all

04:14I mean, it was an effective way to get people talking and you know talking about people talking

04:18Have you ever googled yourself and what was the most surprising thing you learned and what was one wild and untrue thing you learned?

04:25Oh my god. Um

04:27Yeah, i've googled i've done it a couple times. I've done it a couple times. I would say it's terrible for mental health

04:34Um because it's like that thing in high school where it's like you if you know people are talking about you

04:42Like would you rather know what they're saying or not?

04:45I think I don't really want to get into specifics, but I think there's definitely been untrue things that i've read

04:51about myself and I think

04:53the thing that that is hard about this this whole I don't know, I guess this fame thing is like

05:00you know, you you come up in a place where

05:03At one point in your career everything you hear is generally pretty supportive and then you know you get to a place and I think

05:08that's maybe

05:09Indicative of of like where you know, what is that in their career when the negativity starts to happen?

05:16and you know, I think

05:18I think there's there it takes a real discipline and a strength of mind

05:23to say

05:25I'm, not going to be able to get through to everyone

05:28I'm, not going to be able to explain myself to everyone or to tell the truth to everyone

05:33Not everyone's going to want to hear it. Not everyone's going to you know, uh care

05:38Uh, which fair enough, you know, um

05:42And you just got to let the haters hate because you know as as they say haters haters gonna hate

05:47So i'm going to read you some narcissistic headlines about you and I want you to react

05:52Okay, just top of mind. So we're gonna start

05:55Simileu was a total fanboy at taylor swift's concert and shared some deep cut swifty takes

06:02Yeah, yeah, I have been a bit more of a swifty. Um

06:06In in recent. I mean, I think i've always been like a support like a casual fan

06:10You know, I know the songs that everyone else knows and taylor's released some absolute bangers over the years, you know

06:17her 1989

06:18era in the heiress tour was

06:21But like I was pretty much on my feet jumping the whole time what i've really learned to appreciate in this last year

06:28is um, some of the like lesser known songs or some of her

06:32For like, you know, it's like it's not

06:36The stuff that is her potentially like maybe the catchiest but there's real insight and real heart and you know

06:43Um and songs like we'll just talk about midnight's first like songs like the great war

06:48You know, which is one of my favorites one of my absolute favorites. Um

06:52songs like daylight, um

06:55songs that like are just they're so

06:59Songs like cornelia street, you know, like they're so specific songs like all too well 10 minute version. They're

07:06So specific and because they're so specific. They're so universally relatable

07:10and um, she's got this just wonderful unique ability to just tap into

07:15What everyone is feeling and and I think she's

07:18She's so real for that, you know, so I got I got the next one for you. Okay. This one's a little spicy

07:23Buckle up. Okay. Oh, okay. Here we go. New book has inspired some extremely thirsty reviews and apparently he's a daddy

07:32Okay

07:34uh

07:35Um, that's that's so interesting that a book that the book wouldn't would inspire that but I appreciate I appreciate that

07:42I appreciate that because it's

07:45the book the book is uh, it's those that's a very vulnerable part of me more it feels more

07:52It feels like i'm bearing more of myself than that woman

07:56That crashed the stage at the 2023 juno awards, you know

07:59Like but it's a similar action if you will of just like the vulnerability of like just showing

08:06all of the parts of yourself and maybe maybe that book is

08:10Doing it in a more metaphorical sense

08:13less on the nose, but

08:16Yeah, yeah, yeah

08:18um, so I appreciate that I appreciate that i'm very proud of the book and i'm glad that people are

08:24Responding to it in whatever positive way that they uh, they so choose

08:29Simu Liu says he grew up the definition of poor and that treating his parents is the greatest

08:34It is the greatest. Um, and i'm sure my parents would have something to say about about what I said

08:39um, but but you know, we weren't we weren't well off by any means, but we made it work and

08:44You know, it was great too as you know, I got to watch my parents grow in their careers from

08:50You know when I when I first came to canada, it was about four and a half

08:54My parents were yeah, they were in grad school. They were living off of

08:57You know scholarship money and I got to witness them get their first jobs and get promoted

09:04You know and both my parents work at the same

09:06Worked at the same engineering company

09:09together for like 20 years and they

09:12um

09:14And I got to watch them grow and get promoted and get to you know

09:17Get to a place where they could buy their first house

09:20Of course, they wouldn't be able to afford it in this day and age with the price of the way that they are

09:24But back then it was still possible

09:26and um, and that's the house that I grew up in and the house that they still live in so

09:31Um, i'm just so proud of them, you know, their story is

09:35Is so inspirational so much more inspirational than anything i'll ever do

09:40and um

09:41and I just

09:42i'm, i'm very grateful to be in a position now where I can

09:46I can show appreciation and I can give back and and let them know that you know

09:50their their next few years are going to be the definition of not poor and that we're going to

09:56um, just

09:58You know go ham and i'm going to spoil the crap out of them

10:00Well, thank you so much for taking the time to chat it's always a pleasure always love chatting with you

10:05Uh, and congratulations on cheetal, you know, keep those fingers in tip-top shape my friend

10:10Thank you. Thank you for thank you for referencing cheetal. It's very important to me

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