How Street Fighter's Kristin Kreuk mastered Chun-Li's moves

There is now an entire generation for whom Street Fighter is just a video game: They're too young to remember 1994's Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle in which the Muscles from Brussels played Guile, fighting Raul Julia's Bison with the help of Ming-Na Wen's Chun-Li.

For this generation, there is Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Starring Kristin Kreuk, whom the kids know from Smallville, as the title character, Legend tells the origin of the game's iconic female fighter.

At the film's press junket last Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif., Kreuk sat cross-legged and barefoot on a Beverly Hilton bed. She noshed on hotel-room pistachios, with a pink scarf shielding her neck from the unreasonably chilled central air. The following Q&A features edited excerpts of SCI FI Wire's interview. (more)