Simu Liu, the star of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, features on the latest episode of Hot Ones, and was asked about a photo from Instagram where he was wearing a Sith Trooper helmet, leading to the question of who his favorite Jedi is.
“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.”
It’s true that… wait. He has more? OK, sure, go off king.
“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 fact, Liu’s nerd out was so complete he ended it by saying “Sorry, I’ve already… you get me on a Star Warstangent and I will show you my true colors.”
Watch Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on Disney+ now.
