Watch Marvel’s Simu Liu Geek Out About His Favorite Star Wars Jedi

Star Wars followers are identified for having passionate opinions and Shang-Chi star Simu Liu isn’t any totally different. On the newest episode of Hot Ones, the brand new Marvel hero was requested a few picture from his Instagram the place he was sporting a red Sith Trooper helmet, which result in the query of who his favourite Jedi is. The reply might be controversial, however definitely nicely reasoned.

“It’s gotta be Qui-Gon Jinn,” Liu said on the show. “This whole idea of the Jedi during the Old Republic, you look at those council scenes where everyone’s so stuck-up. They’re all just like, ‘These are the rules, we don’t ever break the rules,’ and by the way, [that’s] very hypocritical too, because the Jedi are supposed to not want power. They’re like, ‘We have no thirst for power,’ and there’s literally a council that oversees everything that’s in the highest part of Coruscant.”

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“I just love that Qui-Gon is a bit of a maverick,” Liu continued. “He doesn’t care. He’s like, ‘Sorry, I’m gonna train this kid.’ And ultimately, that kid is gonna grow up to become Darth Vader and overthrow the entire Republic, but still, you gotta admire the guy that can see through the hypocrisy of the Jedi Order. They think they’re the good guys—they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re so good,’ but really were the instruments of their own demise, in a way.”

In reality, Liu’s nerd out was so full he ended it by saying “Sorry, I’ve already… you get me on a Star Wars tangent and I will show you my true colors.”

That he did and the second is simply so pure and great. There’s one thing simply magical about seeing somebody you may geek out if you happen to ever met geeking out about one thing themselves, particularly if it’s one thing you’re obsessed with too. And Liu is certainly obsessed with Star Wars. You can watch the clip, which is all cued up, beneath.

Liu’s movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is now on Disney+.

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