Callina Liang says she felt a lot of pressure after seeing the reaction to her casting as Chun-Li in the new Street Fighter movie. After Deadline announced her casting, Liang came across a Reddit thread criticizing her physique: “Callina Liang’s thighs are nowhere as big as Chun-Li’s.” Liang admitted that the comments got into her head, but she also understood where fans were coming from: “As a die-hard fan, I also wanted the person playing Chun-Li to look like the Chun-Li in my head, and the Chun-Li from the video games and the anime.” Instead of ignoring the criticism, she used it as motivation. Liang went through an intense two-month preparation period, training in Taekwondo, Muay Thai and Wushu while following a strict diet. She even ate 12 eggs a day and had a meal every two hours while bulking. By the end of filming, her thighs had grown by 6.5 cm.