Yifei Liu was younger, she found herself in need of a song to perform for a school audition. She chose one from a movie she loved as a child: "Reflection," sung by Lea Salonga and Christina Aguilera for.
Years later, Liu would fly halfway around the world to audition for the titular role in Disney's live-action remake.Director Niki Caro and her team were nearly a year into a global casting search to find their Hua Mulan — and after seeing thousands of actresses, had delayed production in order to continue the casting process — when Liu arrived from China. «I still had jetlag,» she remembers of her first audition for Disney. «I'm like, 'I haven't been asleep for, like, 20 hours.» Caro immediately knew Liu was the one.«It's her spirit.
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