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I Love Boosters starts out, more or less like a fun heist movie.

You can sort of glean that well enough from the trailer if you've seen it.

A gang of cool ladies from the Bay Area steal clothes from high-end designers, then sell them at a steep discount to their friends and neighbors. But I Love Boosters is also a Boots Riley movie. It's

surreal, bombastic, it branches out in a thousand different directions and traverses a dozen different

genres. So it doesn't really stay a heist movie, you know.

My next guest, Poppy Liu, drives that change more than pretty much any other character in the film. She plays Gian Hu, a garment worker in China, who joins the gang, and without spoiling too much, brings a bonkers new wrinkle to the story.

Its role Poppy was made for.

She's made her career playing contact with. spoiling too much, brings a bonkers new wrinkle to the story. Its 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. On hacks, Liu plays Kiki, the blackjack-dealing single mom,

who is easily the most put-together person on the show.

Poppy Liu is great and I love boosters.

She's great in everything.

And I'm so excited to get to talk with them.

Let's get right into it.

Poppy Liu, welcome to Bullseye.

I'm so delighted to have you on the program.

Thanks, Jesse.

It's an honor to be here.

I get the feeling that you are somebody who was excited to be in I Love Boosters for like theory reasons as well as artistic reasons.

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