Simu Liu felt “repressed” as a child. The 33-year-old actor felt invisible as an Asian-Canadian teenager, and so he decided to transform his life when he attended university and gained independence from his family. Simu – who was born in China, but moved to Canada as a child – shared: “I think maybe part of it was growing up feeling so repressed. It felt so different to be seen, I found that very intoxicating.” Despite this, Simu initially pursued a career in accountancy. He told the Guardian newspaper: “I couldn’t quite free myself of my parents’ expectations.” However, Simu was laid off in 2…