By Dexerto | Created at 2026-08-31 12:42:14 | Updated at 2026-09-06 08:03:19
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Street Fighter actor Callina Liang ate 12 eggs a day, trained in multiple martial arts, and hit the gym to match Chun-Li’s famously thicc thighs.
Chun-Li is one of the most recognizable characters in gaming. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t know, or at least recognize, the Street Fighter star, and that’s largely down to her lightning-fast legs.
The martial arts master has continued to be a fan-favorite thanks to her eye-catching design, which Capcom has been keen to accentuate. It’s certainly clear Street Fighter 6’s Chun-Li hasn’t skipped leg day, that’s for sure.
However, the character’s muscular quads have posed a unique challenge to her actor Callina Liang, who revealed she grew her thighs by six-and-a-half centimeters each to prepare for her role in the new Street Fighter movie.
Chun-Li actor grows thighs for Street Fighter film
“Chun-Li is all kicks. So we did a bunch of Taekwondo training, Muay Thai, and wushu. I did two hours of that a day and strengthened my legs a lot and changed my diet drastically,” Liang told Empire magazine.
“When I was bulking, I ate 12 eggs a day. Every two hours I had to have a meal, and I was on the verge of throwing up. But it worked. By the end of the shoot, my thighs had grown six-and-a-half centimeters each.”
When Liang wasn’t busy training and forcing down copious amounts of protein to bulk out her legs in the name of video game realism, she immersed herself in every aspect of Chun-Li’s moveset.
Paramount Pictures“I downloaded every single version of Street Fighter onto a PS5, and I recorded all of Chun-Li’s moves during fights on my phone in slow-mo, so I could play them back and study them,” explained the actor.
Liang has certainly been committed to giving Chun-Li the most realistic portrayal we’ve seen, and fans will be able to see her hard-earned muscles when the Street Fighter movie launches in theaters on October 16, 2026.
It’s not just Chun-Li’s actor who has been keen to get the character right, as back in March live-action One Piece star Emily Rudd revealed she insisted on wearing Nami’s miniskirt despite freezing weather “for the fans”.
