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In fact, Liu wrote that he wanted to offer much more of himself during the run of the show — from writing to creative input — but was repeatedly turned down. He found that “doubly confusing” because “our producers were overwhelmingly white and we were a cast of Asian Canadians who had a plethora of lived experiences to draw from and offer to writers,” he wrote.
Liu said he tried to offer his talents, sending scripts and short films as a way to prove his worth, while also speaking up, as did his castmates, “but those doors were never opened to us in any meaningful way.” His colleague, series star Paul Sun Hyung Lee, also shared his frustrations regarding the show’s cancelation in March when he told the, that creator Choi stopped speaking to him. “He ghosted me,” he said. “I’m very hurt by that, to be honest.
“I had no mentor during this whole process and nobody from the producing team of the show ever even remotely reached out. So, I probably said and did things that were stupid and not helpful,” he said, adding that despite his experiences he always worked to present a united front to the press. Now that that’s changed, he also came clean on pay, saying that he felt the cast was underpaid “for how successful the show actually became.