{"id":83657,"date":"2026-09-10T02:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83657"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:47:01","slug":"callina-liangs-stunt-double-in-street-fighter-movie-had-to-wear-butt-pads-to-match-chun-lis-muscular-physique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83657","title":{"rendered":"Callina Liang’s Stunt Double in Street Fighter Movie Had to Wear Butt Pads to Match Chun-Li’s Muscular Physique"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Callina Liang\u2019s stunt double in Legendary\u2019s upcoming Street Fighter movie had to wear butt pads in order to realistically match Chun-Li\u2019s muscular physique.<\/p>\n

Director Kitao Sakurai revealed this humorous anecdote during a Q&A session at a media event ahead of the movie\u2019s official release. The topic was the intense training Liang underwent to achieve Chun-Li\u2019s iconic thunder thighs, which grew her legs by 6.5 centimeters.<\/p>\n

In fact, Liang\u2019s silhouette had gotten so muscular that her stunt double couldn\u2019t convincingly pull off her physique for action sequences \u2014 so she had to wear butt pads to make her glutes match the results of Chun-Li\u2019s rigorous squat routine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI knew it was serious when we were filming a scene kind of later in the movie, and I saw Callina\u2019s stunt double, and I was like, \u2018What are you wearing?\u2019 And there were like these butt pads that she had to wear just to match Callina\u2019s physique,\u201d Sakurai said.<\/p>\n

Noah Centineo, who plays Ken Masters, chimed in: \u201cYeah, and then we had to wear them out of solidarity, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all had huge legs,\u201d Liang laughed.<\/p>\n

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Whatever it takes to become Chun-Li. \ud83e\udee1 #StreetFighterMovie pic.twitter.com\/NKDopb5iqT<\/a><\/p>\n

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Liang has been open about the work it took to bring Chun-Li to life, saying she took on a grueling martial arts routine and even ate a dozen eggs every single day to gain enough muscle mass.<\/p>\n

“Chun-Li is all kicks. So we did a bunch of Taekwondo training, Muay Thai, and Wushu (Kung Fu). I did two hours of that a day and strengthened my legs a lot and changed my diet drastically. 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,\u201d she said in an August interview with Empire Magazine.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not all; Liang also says she downloaded every version of Street Fighter available on her PlayStation 5 and recorded Chun-Li\u2019s moves on her phone to get a better feel for how the First Lady of Fighting Games moves in battle.<\/p>\n