The cast and crew of Marvel's 'Shang-Chi' went out to dinner together every week while filming

• Sue Chan was the production designer for "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."
• Chan told Insider that "there was a real sort of family atmosphere" on the set of the movie.
• In fact, she arranged weekly dinners while shooting in Australia where the cast and crew attended.

"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" seemed to have a real sense of family while the cast and crew were shooting the now-record-breaking movie.

Not only was there an on-set love story that culminated in a marriage, but the cast and crew would have weekly dinners together while shooting in Australia, according to production designer Sue Chan.

Chan told Insider that Sydney was a "great town for eating" that featured many restaurants for the cast and crew to frequent.

"One of the things that I liked to do was organize these Friday night dinners before we got too busy. And I just said to anybody, 'Hey, you want to try out this restaurant? Let's show up and try this restaurant.' And that really fostered a camaraderie early on," Chan said.

"And the actors joined us, too. Simu [Liu] would join us sometimes and Meng'er [Zhang] and Fala [Chen] and Tony [Leung] - there were definitely dinners where they popped in and the cast and the crew would co-mingle."

Xialing actress Meng'er Zhang was actually one half of the couple who met on the set of the movie and got married - with the other half being action designer Yung Lee. The cast and crew, led by Liu and Awkwafina, hosted a surprise wedding reception at Disneyland for the newlyweds.

Chan said this sense of camaraderie was prevalent throughout filming, particularly because all of the departments - from stunts and visual effects to the art department and costume designers - were so integrated.

"It was a great lot of camaraderie - a real family feeling. Not because we were Asians necessarily but because we were just so focused on working this out and it was new for an MCU film," Chan said. "Even though the source material was the comic, we deviated so much from that so there was so much to be synthesized between everyone as we went along."

Chan said that while the set of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," Marvel's first leading Asian superhero, featured a lot of Asian filmmakers, she didn't really notice it to begin with as she was so focused on making the movie.

"It doesn't really penetrate because we're all very task oriented; except that there was a real sort of family atmosphere," Chan said. "But certainly for me, working on a film with so many Asian [creators] was just a lot of fun."

"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" is in theaters now.