Simu Liu performed at Oscars despite nursing an injury: Was a perfect moment

It’s been four days since Ryan Gosling took center stage at the Oscar awards in a fuschia pink suit and sang the hit number ‘I’m Just A Ken’ from the film Barbie and the showstopping is still being widely discussed online. Gosling’s performance not only brought in Kenergy inside the Dolby Theatres in Los Angeles, but it also served as a perfect reunion for actors who played Ken in the Barbie movie including an injured Simu Liu.

During a recent interview, Liu revealed that he had a torn Achillies tendon months before the performance and hadn’t completely healed. Liu though did not want to miss the opportunity to perform and miss out the “pretty surreal” Kens reunion on the Academy Awards stage Sunday night. Liu starred as one of the Kens in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.

“I’m like four months into recovering from Achilles surgery, but I’m powering through it because I’m like, ‘I feel like this is going to be a historic moment that I never would forgive myself if I wasn’t a part of,"the Arthur the King actor said.

"I was like, ‘Should I be doing this?’ I was talking to my (physical therapist) and he’s like, ‘Ehhhh’ but I was like, ‘Whatever, I’m going to do it.’ But it came together quite quickly. Ryan has such a specific vision for what he wanted. And it was a perfect moment," he added.

In October, the actor took to Instagram to reveal that he had torn his Archilles tendon during an ““ultimate friends sports weekend” and was on crutches. The injury typcially takes six months to recover, according to experts at Mayo Clinic.

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He later detailed to People magazine what led to the injury, saying he invited 20 of his closest friends to Miami for an “Olympic-style tournament of sports.” And once they got to the basketball game, that’s when things turned for the worse.

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Liu was pictured with a brace on his leg throughout the award season. The actor admitted that it was worth it to get the opportunity to join the ‘I’m Just Ken’ performance at the Oscars.

Gosling’s performance brought the house down as he went into the audience and made Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, America Ferrera and Emma Stone sing along with him. The other Kens- Kens Scott Evans, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ncuti Gatwa also joined in along with Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen to end the epic performance.

Throughout award season, Liu has been seen with a brace on his leg on red carpets. But he admitted that it was still worth it to get the opportunity to join the ‘I’m Just Ken’ Oscars performance. He added, “It was such a great way to wrap up the entire experience for us.”