Callina Liang's Legs Kept Growing Through the “Street Fighter” Shoot — So Her Stunt Double Padded Up to Match
- Callina Liang plays Chun-Li in the 2026 "Street Fighter" movie.
- She trained in stunts and martial arts daily and added nearly three inches to her thighs.
- Her stunt double had to wear pads so the two still matched when they swapped in and out of scenes.
Posted: October 23, 2026
Matching is the quiet half of a doubling job, and "Street Fighter" spent a shoot chasing a moving target. Callina Liang had two months to build Chun-Li's legs before cameras rolled, and she did not stop when they did — weightlifting sessions whenever the schedule allowed, stunt training running right through principal photography. "That's why my legs kept growing from the first day of filming to the last day of filming," she told The Hollywood Reporter. The build change was big enough that her stunt double went into pads to hold the silhouette through the swaps. For a stunt department, that is the problem in miniature: a double is cast and fitted to a body that then changes underneath the costume, and the fix lands on wardrobe, padding and camera rather than on the performer.
The choreography came at her the same way the body work did — in pieces, in shooting order. "I learned the first choreo I had to film, and then after we filmed that, I had to learn the second choreo I had to film," Liang said. That is a coordinator's call on a long action schedule: teach to the call sheet rather than front-load the whole picture, and keep the lead fresh for the sequence actually being shot.
Two of the moments she describes never made the cut, and both were practical. A scripted finger amputation during Chun-Li's Shadaloo initiation was replaced with a hand branding — a continuity decision as much as a story one, since a missing digit would have to be carried, and digitally carried, through every sequel frame. And a slap she suggested at her chemistry read with Noah Centineo was shot for real across several takes: "There was no way to really fake it, so Noah just let me slap him in the face a couple of times." It was cut.
The picture's stunt department is credited to stunt coordinator Philip Partridge and fight coordinator Anthony Rinna, with Jon Valera as second unit director and second unit stunt coordinator and Cameron Hilts as assistant stunt coordinator. Megan Hui is credited as Liang's stunt double and Ana Cuyuni as the Chun-Li double.
Learn more on IMDb: Street Fighter (2026) · Megan Hui · Ana Cuyuni · Philip Partridge · Anthony Rinna · Jon Valera
