Street Fighter (2026)

There are certain non-negotiable constants in the world of Street Fighter, from Ryu throwing Hadoukens to Dhalsim being referred to as"Stretchy-Arm Guy" by new players, and when it comes to Chun Li, the Interpol agent always has a set of thighs strong enough to crack a titanium-plated watermelon in half. October's Street Fighter movie looks like a faithful adaptation of the classic fighting games, and Chun-Li actress Callina Liang worked hard to get her body--especially her legs--into fighting shape for the role. To prepare for the part, Liang practiced several martial arts built around kicking techniques, but most importantly, she also switched to a high-protein diet to help bulk up her muscles. This was a tough program for Liang to follow--eating a dozen eggs every day had her on the verge of throwing up--but by the end of her training, she'd added an impressive layer of muscle to her thighs alone."Chun-Li is all kicks. So we did a bunch of Taekwondo training, Muay Thai, and Wushu (Kung Fu)," Liang said to Empire Magazine (via IGN )."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." https://youtu.be/Xt4X4FvXk2A Liang added that she prepared herself mentally by downloading multiple Street Fighter games onto her PlayStation 5, recording her moves in slow motion, and then playing them back so she could study them. Thighs are a particularly tough muscle group to train because they're designed to be high-endurance parts of the body. What this means is that they require extreme systemic fatigue and precise, agonizingly hard sets to properly grow over time--a process that is anything but easy. A fan-favorite character in Street Fighter circles, Chun-Li has been consistently portrayed as having the best thighs in the game, with her martial arts using her leg muscles to beat down opponents much larger than herself. The Street Fighter 2 anime movie is a prime example--that fight scene with Vega is still a masterpiece in animated violence--and in one of the Street Fighter movie trailers , Mel Jarnson's Cammy makes an offhand remark about how she thinks Chun-Li's thighs are overrated--that'll probably come back to haunt her later in the film. Street Fighter will be thigh-zing up the box office competition in October, and other actors in the movie have also leaned fully into their characters. WWE performer Cody Rhodes went full Guile during his SummerSlam match, and Noah Centineo, who plays Ken Masters in the movie, says that the film is filled with"hundreds" of Easter eggs for fans to enjoy.

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