This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. Our guest today is actor Simul Liu. He's best known for his

breakout role as Shang Chi, Marvel's first Asian superhero in the film Shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Now he stars with Woody Harrelson in the new film Last Breath. He spoke with fresh airs and Marie Boldenado.

Actor Simulieu has taken on some roles that are pretty physically challenging. He does

killer fight sequences in the film Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and who can

forget him dancing as one of the kens in the movie Barbie. His latest film may be even more extreme.

The action thriller Last Breath is based on the true story of deep sea divers in peril at the

bottom of the North Sea. In 2012, three divers were embarking on a routine dive when rough

weather and computer errors caused one diver's

umbilical cable to get stuck leaving him trapped.

What happens now?

You're umbilical. It's going to snap.

You'll get pulled out the structure.

Now I will come back for you, but you have to do something for me, okay?

You have to get yourself back to the top of the manifold.

I can't rescue you if I can't find you.

Understand?

That's Simulieu, with Fin Kohl as the diver who stuck with only minutes of reserve oxygen left.

Simulieu's character with another diver, played by Woody Harrelson, desperately try to bring the trap diver back to safety.

Simu Liu's first big break was in the CBC Netflix comedy, Kim's Convenience, which ran for

five seasons. He says being fired from his accounting job is what helped him take the leap

into acting. His best-selling memoir, We Were Dreamers,

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