Yea I saw the video yesterday and Simu's response as well. I looked up a few reactions to it on Reddit and my takeaway is that really, it was only one woman out of the four interviewees that said Simu was ugly and she was disappointed. The others seemed to understand that beauty standards differ from East to West (which really shouldn't excuse hate and belittlement because beauty standards are toxic, but I digress). And to be fair, a lot of the articles I've seen reporting this stuff only use like three examples of netizens on Weibo outright calling Simu (or Awkwafina) ugly. So I think as it is now, it's really just a few trolls of the vocal minority that are representing this whole thing (as it is in most cases of online hate). Perhaps everyone gave it too much attention, and I didn't even want Simu Liu to address it at a point (but I'm glad he did as classy as he is).
For comparison's sake, Brie Larson allegedly received the exact same treatment but that didn't stop Captain Marvel from succeeding over there. Granted, Larson isn't a Chinese actress playing a Chinese character, but I think things will turn around when the release nears.
Also Tien Long, there a part of your quote missing which is pretty important (no worries, some places aren't showing the full thing Simu said):
The last bit is what I'm referring to, and even though it's been reported already that the director and writer aimed to remove all the negative stereotypes from the comics, the fact that Simu is very much aware of it AND wants to discuss it says to me that they've definitely addressed it and are clearly taking more inspiration from the modern comics. And I agree that is what Asian Boss should have made a video about (instead of baiting people to call someone ugly). He also talked about it on Instagram Live and here's a brief clip:
https://mobile.twitter.com/scttlng/s...85975911010304
Edit: My bad, these are actually two different posts by Simu. The one I posted is a response in a Facebook group.