Simu Liu knew exactly who to ask for help before kneeling to the ground and pulling out a ring for his now-fiancée, digital marketing executive Allison Hsu: Taylor Swift, who was an essential part of their love story from the start.
While guesting on The Tonight Show on Monday (Dec. 15), the Marvel star revealed that the pop superstar helped him surprise Hsu — who “grew up a Swiftie” — when he proposed this past spring. “She loves Taylor Swift,” Liu emphasized. “And Taylor Swift songs and her music, that was a big part of the beginning of our relationship — getting to know her through those songs and why they meant so much to her.”
“So, I was like, ‘If there was one person who would make this engagement so special…,’” he continued. “And I reached out — as if we’re BFFs, I’ve met her a couple times, and she’s fantastic — I reached out to Taylor through her publicist. I said, ‘Is there any way that I could convince you to make a 2-second video just to say congrats?’”
Liu added that Swift indeed sent a video over within two days, after which he played it for Hsu after popping the question on a trip to Paris. “Taylor Swift was the cherry on top,” he told Jimmy Fallon “She’s so nice and so sweet … [Hsu] was really emotional and before, and when I played that video, she just completely lost it.”
The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings actor announced that he and Hsu were engaged in May, sharing photos of himself and his future wife posing in front of the Eiffel tower on Instagram. “From weekends in Paris, day trips to Palm Springs, long nights on set, afternoons vegging on the couch and everything in between, I choose you forever and always,” Liu wrote at the time.
Just a few months later, Swift would also get engaged. This past August, she and Travis Kelce announced their plans to get married with photos of the proposal on Instagram captioned, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Watch Liu recall how Swift helped him pull off the perfect proposal above.
