"It Did Not Go Over Well" - When Simu Liu Told His Parents He Got Fired From His Accounting Job

Simu Liu, author of the new memoir, "We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story," tells Stephen about the journey his family took, from China to Canada and now to Hollywood. "We Were Dreamers" is available everywhere now. #Colbert #WeWereDreamers #SimuLiu
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[@bpxl53yewz29]

Some actors are so closed off and uncomfortable in interviews, but Simu is a natural talking away. It’s like he’s everybody’s best friend.

[@Michelle-pq3nq]

That's exactly how it feels, like your watching one of your buddies succeed and being overjoyed because he so deserves it.

[@NellieKAdaba]

👍🏿

[@SKD_TRASH_at_Blazblue]

The MAIN key is CONFIDENCE. Just have CONFIDENCE & you will go a long way in life & etc.

[@ahorrell]

This dude is craaaaaaaazy comfortable in front of a crowd on live TV. And so funny!

[@JP-lu9ed]

Such a charming guy. Loved Kim’s Convenience.

[@bellaventimiglia1111]

I stumbled upon Kim’s on Netflix (long b4 Simu became a Marvel superhero)…and absolutely LOVED it! I TOTALLY related to the characters bcuz they reminded me of my own family members even tho I’m not Korean. 😍

[@KaptainKKD]

What I love about Stephen is that he does his homework about people he interviews. Even if he doesn't get the details right, he asks with enough pizazz about the interviewee's life that they can add to the conversation by correcting the details, rearranging the thoughts in an order that the audience can understand, and boom! another guest that becomes a friend because both sides feel valued. Simu is great, I hope he becomes a regular on the show

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

I agree. Stephen is a natural for being curious like his talk show hero Dick Cavett. And we are so proud of Simu! Such a sweet and natural guy. He likes this stuff!

[@ariprabowo85]

As an Asian, I can understand his parents' reaction. Like my asian parents always say: "Just be yourself. If you are a doctor. Otherwise, be an engineer or an accountant."

[@snowpj5914]

Or lawyer lmao 🤣

[@burizaemon9305]

That's very on point : doctor, engineer, accountant...🤣🤣

[@JasonB95]

His self confidence you can feel through the screen. He's super comfortable in this interview.

[@heathermain9671]

Just finished reading Simu's book on Tuesday. I highly recommend it.

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@rwv3n]

Love Simu. So glad he’s getting the recognition he deserves.

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@simuliu744]

@@rwv3n Thanks for your endless love and support . I'm forever grateful for all support and care. I will love to create a warm atmosphere to know your opinions and thoughts about my movies.

[@simuliu744]

@@rwv3n You can share your opinions and thoughts via the email on my channel description

[@Karin_Allen]

Simu is so effortlessly funny - and so sweet too! He deserves all the success in the world.

[@smorris7713]

This dude is a vibe, love him.

[@em0_tion]

Some studio should really scoop him for romcoms ASAP.

[@shysweet5439]

i love Simu! loved him since the 1st season of Kim's Convenience

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@pikeyMcBarkin]

He's getting way better at interviews. Much better!

[@diannaw3034]

So stinkin' adorable!! Been a big fan since the first season of Kim's Convenience!!! Loving that he's this break out star now!!! His charm just increases with every interview! So happy for him! Much love from Ontario, Canada

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@jimmysgetndown]

Extremely charming dude

[@Hello-Stoiko]

He’s a natural in interviews, funny and charming yet self-deprecating.

[@rinaliu]

I adore him! So natural and genuine and funny and confident! God do I have the opportunity and honor to meet him in China someday?! Simu, we love you back here❤️❤️❤️

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@amandadougherty6615]

China in the ‘60s and ‘70s was no joke. And to draw a straight line from that to a Marvel movie…that truly is a story. 加油！

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@SS-xm7di]

so naturally effortlessly charming

[@benzaiten933]

Simu is such a cutie!

[@hibyenow20]

Simu gives off such nice vices! He comes off as so approachable, confident, and welcoming!

[@MinLee2]

I want to see Simu Liu and Steven Yeun have a conversation.

[@bellaventimiglia1111]

Yeah, that would be awesome!!! 👍🏾

[@bonniec8429]

It only took half the length of this interview to love Simiu Liu. What a great guy. I'm rushing out to buy his book.

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@fillhixx]

Simu, he may have a future in standup comedy…..

[@misterderp4566]

I need to see Simu be bad at something just so I can regain a tiny shred of self-confidence. Like, if I can say "I'm better at crosswords than the action star, best-selling author" that will be enough.

[@UkeCan1]

You might be better at accounting.

[@bentennyson6141]

@@UkeCan1 hahahahahaha

[@gigin6534]

@@UkeCan1 damn, beat me to it 😂😂

[@sweebos]

@@UkeCan1 😆

[@moimeself1088]

Are you an accountant? Sounds like you might have a gap...

[@Epaulshi]

So happy for all the well deserved success! Love his book! Got the audio book and really enjoyed it!

[@johnnynephrite6147]

And if that wasn't bad enough, his parents saw this episode and sent him like 4 dozen pairs from socks and a care package.

[@MyStylist.Naomi12]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidlane256]

When people hear about dreamers in the context of immigrants, they usually think of Mexicans. I’m glad he wrote that book and shows how the dream can be.

[@daniromero5135]

I think definitely what make me so attracted to this man is his personality and his confidence 👏🏼❤️

[@saifmahmudishtiakshushaan462]

"Just the legs?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@firsttimefarmer4666]

He so 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@IAmTired163]

He's real and relatable.. always love his interaction

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@downingkris7921]

LOVE this guy!!!!

[@jeffreywillstewart]

I loved Kim's Convenience so much. The show was so good I keep feeling bad for "Janet", with Jung getting to be an action star. Lol

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

Brilliant! Charming, funny, fun! 🖖

[@JoustingJosie]

He’s adorable!

[@chartisiapaxton39]

Y'all, read his book! Just finished it and learned so much from his life. Simu, thanks for sharing and your honesty and vulnerability, it helped me so much you have no idea ❤️ and loved the humor throughout the book 😊 (p.s. hoping so much you read this while doing that interview where you go undercover on the Internet 😂😜)

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@freshmacarons]

Amazing. Thank you

[@messyartist666]

He is so pretty 😍 Mmm! Love Simu!!!

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS]

I love him in Kim’s convenience.

[@simuliufanpage6652]

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[@ntt2k]

It's hard to make Stephen laugh.. and Simu was doing it quite a lot in this video :)

[@angelaan5280]

as a Chinese Canadian myself... this guy is so relatable! and cute!

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@thumper5555]

I recently finished watching Kim's Convenience Season 5. One of my favorite shows of all time!

[@suekelsey1329]

Thank you Again

[@simuliufanpage6652]

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[@Downloadeodeo]

TWENTU WON!!!🌸🌼🌷

[@mariekastler5391]

What a lovely man!!!

[@ewenchan1239]

Word.

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

On the most American of nights who is on but Asian-CANADIAN Simu Liu! LIVE on CBS-TV! In the very same space were Wayne and Shuster were on the Ed Sullivan show. Gotta love Simu!

[@theontanga7141]

2:02 you don't. never do 😂

[@xtinasui]

every time Simu says something, I feel like my IQ elevated kinda feeling ya know, I love him

[@pandoraeeris7860]

We're all living in a Simu Liu-ation.

[@NewMessage]

Wasn't expecting a gam show!

[@davincisghost9228]

Cool guy.

[@misstery25]

Simu Liu as Simu Liu is even more fun to watch than Simu Liu as Shang-Chi. And I liked Shang-Chi!

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@moimeself1088]

Funny guy. I like.

[@beccas9783]

I read the book and it’s surprisingly good!

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@clockwork9827]

famous for 15 + book deal. liked Kim's Convenience too. also read Not Yo' Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto, a Japanese American woman

[@andrewlindner5018]

I was worried for Simu, when knowing it was taped live - being a Stephen Colbert fan - I still think he looked and sounded better than Stephen!! 👏

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@lakeeshaarafat1544]

When I was a kid, my favorite Ken doll was the one with a beard! You could "shave" him, but I thought he looked better with the facial hair. Lol!😄

[@rebeccarebeccaa2515]

I've done the Brazilian and I've waxed my legs. I will never wax my legs again. That is way more painful.

[@benzaiten933]

I'm too much of a coward to get a brazilian, even though it'd be so convenient for bikini season.

[@sillythingsme186]

@@benzaiten933 same

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@DerekHoscorner]

Stephen Colbert it did not go over well when simu liu parents awesomeness job interview

[@jielcm2726]

It's him, Jimmy O Yang, Gemma Chan, Akwafina & Henry Golding are my Asian super humans!!!

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@minorchord]

I'm sure Simu has more stories but in every interview they ask him about his accounting job :/

[@yuapanda]

The only explanation is everybody finds accounting irresistibly fascinating

[@UkeCan1]

@@yuapanda Are you an accountant? 😁

[@superlynnie]

Lol, i thought the same.

[@bpxl53yewz29]

And parents’ reaction to leaving accounting and pursuing acting. Asian interviews. Sigh

[@bellaventimiglia1111]

At least Stephen didn’t show any of Simu’s stock photos altho the stories abt them are funny! 😂

[@user-gc5kv3cd7j]

I watched Shang-Chi last night

[@elqord.1118]

Nobody knows you so who cares?

[@donaldstewart9873]

👍👍

[@vladtepes97]

if he didn't make it as an actor he can always fall back onto lion tamer.

[@jlt131]

is it weird that when he talks about his parents, i picture the Kims?

[@bellaventimiglia1111]

😂🤣😂

[@isabellanadia6189]

The cc on 1:06 😂

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@45green1]

I do like Simu 🙂

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@45green1]

@@simuliu744 paris France

[@simuliu744]

@@45green1 Thanks for your endless love and support . I'm forever grateful for all support and care. I will love to create a warm atmosphere to know your opinions and thoughts about my movies.

[@simuliu744]

@@45green1 You can share your opinions and thoughts via the email on my channel description

[@youtube_user]

Well, his first sentence probably was Simu's most honest answer to Steve's question.

[@Emilyghe]

Screw those companies and bosses who never appreciate and deserve us! I’ve been in big four and other companies that have unreasonable processes

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@saturnv2419]

I have waxed by leg once for swim meet. Never want to do it again.

[@sl0thilicious]

Simu! What a guy 🤗🏳️‍🌈

[@simuliufanpage6652]

Hello thanks for your likes and comment on my official page more love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@seanbou4122]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cricketmonday1469]

It's an obvious thing to say, but ...VERY LIKEABLE CANADIAN. Aren't they all?

[@dimcclung]

Never have I or will I take time off work in order to go support the politician for which I voted, who lost. That’s insane.

[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@Phoenix-nl2ut]

He speaks really good English

[@NewMessage]

Meh.. Accounting should be a 'fall back' occupation anyway.

[@skymorality]

Man Stephen.... you fumbled too much....

[@honantong]

sock

[@NewMessage]

Those dolls don't have something more important than hair... I hope he didn't go full method for the role!

[@mightyone3737]

At least as an accountant you don't have to wax! Also, I think you're doing allying wrong, trying to ally with people would be to point out 'hey, nobody should have to go through that shit for literally no reason'. The anti-hair view is evolutionarily speaking fucked up, adults have hair, it's normal, not having hair is weird, like you're trying to appeal to people who are into overly young people. If someone wants to remove their hair, that's their choice, but nobody should ever feel pressure to, regardless of gender. The enormous pressure on women to appeal as infantile as possible is messed up.

[@quotesofstruggle2687]

Your dreams don't come true. I will finish. Will have to wait a few days for that. I am coming to help you soon

[@kristinchong629]

Le sigh. Like what did he give the world. Like please what did like people do when they heard this. And well did white people say China. Like in two days are we going to be like discussing this. Are you letting people know what's up.

[@F8Tributo]

Does he renounce the CCP?

[@Roadrage62]

Ask trudeau

[@cynthiajones4332]

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[@simuliu744]

❤️Thanks for the endless love and support you have constantly shown me in such difficult moment. I’m forever grateful. I really appreciate your unconditional love to me and every effort exerted by you to cause a change…Where are you watching from?

[@fanaticforager6610]

WaX 🔛 WaX ÔFF ✨🙌🥳