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hen Quentin Tarantino lamented that “the Marvel-isation of Hollywood” meant its actors “are not movie stars”, s Simu Liu took it personally. Frustrated by Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese’s 2019 labelling of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as “not cinema,” Liu

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