Anne-Marie Baldonado

Yes, you're picked up by your dad when you're almost five and you move to live with your parents in Canada. What do you remember about those early years, living with your parents who didn't really know and trying to acclimate yourself to this new country?

Yes, you're picked up by your dad when you're almost five and you move to live with your parents in Canada. What do you remember about those early years, living with your parents who didn't really know and trying to acclimate yourself to this new country?

Yes, you're picked up by your dad when you're almost five and you move to live with your parents in Canada. What do you remember about those early years, living with your parents who didn't really know and trying to acclimate yourself to this new country?

Our guest is actor Simu Liu. His films include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie, and the new film Last Breath. More after a break. I'm Anne-Marie Baldonado, and this is Fresh Air.

Our guest is actor Simu Liu. His films include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie, and the new film Last Breath. More after a break. I'm Anne-Marie Baldonado, and this is Fresh Air.

Our guest is actor Simu Liu. His films include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie, and the new film Last Breath. More after a break. I'm Anne-Marie Baldonado, and this is Fresh Air.

In your memoir, you write about how difficult it was for you growing up as a teenager with your parents and their unrealistic expectations for you. What was so hard about your relationship back then in your teens?

In your memoir, you write about how difficult it was for you growing up as a teenager with your parents and their unrealistic expectations for you. What was so hard about your relationship back then in your teens?

In your memoir, you write about how difficult it was for you growing up as a teenager with your parents and their unrealistic expectations for you. What was so hard about your relationship back then in your teens?

your memoir is this beautiful, I think, way to try to reconcile what a lot of Asian American and Asian Canadian children of immigrants go through, that tension between knowing that your immigrant parents gave up so much for you, but they put all this pressure on you to succeed in a way that they understand. And it's not open to other ways of life.

your memoir is this beautiful, I think, way to try to reconcile what a lot of Asian American and Asian Canadian children of immigrants go through, that tension between knowing that your immigrant parents gave up so much for you, but they put all this pressure on you to succeed in a way that they understand. And it's not open to other ways of life.

your memoir is this beautiful, I think, way to try to reconcile what a lot of Asian American and Asian Canadian children of immigrants go through, that tension between knowing that your immigrant parents gave up so much for you, but they put all this pressure on you to succeed in a way that they understand. And it's not open to other ways of life.

And I feel like you telling the story of your grandparents and and your parents and your own story, trying to understand what they went through. It was like you were trying to repair the hurt across generations, the way you do that by explaining their lives and their hardships and what they came to parenting with as their background. Can you quickly describe what their teen years were like?

And I feel like you telling the story of your grandparents and and your parents and your own story, trying to understand what they went through. It was like you were trying to repair the hurt across generations, the way you do that by explaining their lives and their hardships and what they came to parenting with as their background. Can you quickly describe what their teen years were like?

And I feel like you telling the story of your grandparents and and your parents and your own story, trying to understand what they went through. It was like you were trying to repair the hurt across generations, the way you do that by explaining their lives and their hardships and what they came to parenting with as their background. Can you quickly describe what their teen years were like?

Because it's this contrast to your teen years, obviously. Yeah.

Because it's this contrast to your teen years, obviously. Yeah.

Because it's this contrast to your teen years, obviously. Yeah.

For them, it was like literally the education that saved them. Yeah.

For them, it was like literally the education that saved them. Yeah.