The Marvel Cinematic Universe may be slipping on its Mandarin.MCU star Simu Liu, who led “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” took to social media to criticize the pronunciation in Disney+ series “Moon Knight.”The star of the upcoming “Barbie” film tweeted, “Alright Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher” after the latest episode included Ethan Hawke’s character Arthur speaking Mandarin to one of his cult followers, played by Miriam Nyarko.
(See the tweet below.)Liu’s Twitter followers agreed, with one fan commenting, “Yes.
Exactly.
@MarvelStudios what happened here? What is this?? For those wondering, there were Zero Mandarin/Chinese words spoken.”Another user wrote, “As someone who has been studying Mandarin for a good while, I was incredibly confused watching that scene.
That wasn’t Mandarin, which is weird, because the MCU did a good job with Mandarin in Shang-Chi.”A fan noted,
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