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On November 29, 2017, Chinese-American actress Yifei Liu was cast in the film to portray the titular role of Mulan. Many celebrated this as a win for diversity in Disney films. [7] Further cast announcements for Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, and Xana Tang were made in April 2018, [11] [14] Utkarsh Ambudkar and Ron Yuan in May, [31] Yoson An and Chum Ehelepola in June, [15] Jason Scott Lee in July, [13] Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao, Cheng Pei-Pei, Nelson Lee, Jimmy Wong and Doua Moua in August, [23] [20] and Chen Tang in September. [21] Director Niki Caro, the director of Mulan

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