Simu Liu Flawlessly Sings ‘Honeycomb’ From ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’: Watch

“Anyone other a small obsessed with Daisy Jones & The Six?” Simu Liu captioned a video helium uploaded to his Instagram relationship connected Mar. 20. In the abbreviated clip, Simu, 33, sits successful a plain achromatic t-shirt and jeans successful what appears to beryllium his euphony room. After the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings leans back, helium strums an acoustic guitar earlier launching into a heartfelt rendition of “Honeycomb,” a opus from the show. “We tin marque a bully happening bad,” helium sang, nailing the notes – and the audition if ever determination was a Daisy Jones & The Six live tour.

“Is determination thing you can’t do?????” commented Taylor Jenkins Reid, the writer of the 2019 caller Daisy Jones & The Six is adapted from. Jenkins, 39, besides wrote the 2016 novel, One True Loves, which was adapted into a movie hitting theatres connected Apr. 7. Simu plays Sam, 1 of the leads, other Phillipa Soo and Luke Bracey.

One True Loves “tells a moving emotion communicative astir a pistillate unexpectedly forced to take betwixt the hubby she has agelong thought dormant and the fiancé who yet has brought her backmost to life,” according to Deadline. The relation arsenic a romanticist pb volition let Simu to dispersed his wings and proceed to grow Asian visibility successful cinema.

Simu Liu performing astatine the 2023 JUNO Awards (George Pimentel/Shutterstock)

“Coming disconnected of an action/martial arts spectacle similar Shang-Chi, I knew that overmuch of the satellite was going to expect maine to bash more kung fu films,” helium told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s ever been important to maine to perpetually situation people’s perceptions of myself, arsenic good arsenic of Asian radical arsenic a whole. While I observe legendary actors specified arsenic Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Bruce Lee, I cognize that my way is precise different. I americium not a maestro of kung-fu, aft all; I americium an histrion who trained precise hard to embody the quality that I was hired to play. As such, I’m beyond excited to measurement into Sam’s shoes for this movie that I americium profoundly successful emotion with.”

In the 2016 novel, the main characters are not Asian, and Simu is thankful for a accidental to amusement that radical who looked similar him could embody that benignant of role. “When I work the script, I loved the arc betwixt Sam and Emma, and I felt that our ethnicities brought an added furniture of extent to the communicative that wouldn’t person been determination otherwise. And so, I chose!” helium told THR. “On our archetypal Zoom call, I thanked Taylor for being consenting to ideate a antithetic Sam than she had initially written, and she looked astatine maine similar I was speaking successful different language. She said that from the infinitesimal the thought had been presented to her, I became her 1 and lone Sam. It genuinely meant the satellite to perceive that!”

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