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  "textContent": "[caption id=\"attachment_160445\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"478\"] (Photo: Daniel Speer / Maximum Fun)[/caption] _I Love Boosters_ starts like a fun heist movie. There’s a gang of cool ladies from the Bay Area who steal clothes from high-end designers and sell them at a steep discount to their friends and neighbors. But _I Love Boosters_ is also a Boots Riley movie. The film is surreal and bombastic, branching out in a thousand directions and traversing a dozen genres. So it can't really stay a heist movie. Poppy Liu drives that change more than pretty much any other character in the film. She plays Jianhu, a garment worker in China who joins the gang and brings with her a bonkers new wrinkle to the story. It's a role Poppy was made for. She's made her career playing confident, somewhat unhinged weirdos. She was cast in a lead role in the 2019 sitcom Sunnyside, had other parts on Better Call Saul, The After Party, and Hacks.  Liu joins us to talk about starring in _I Love Boosters_ and the message that she hopes audiences take away from the film. She also chats with us about her upbringing in Minnesota, how she got into comedy acting, her role on _Hacks_ , and much more!",
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