Many celebrated this as a win for diversity in Disney films.[1] Further cast announcements for Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, and Xana Tang were made in April 2018,[2][3] Utkarsh Ambudkar and Ron Yuan in May,[22] Yoson An and Chum Ehelepola in June,[5] Jason Scott Lee in July,[6] Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao, Cheng Pei-Pei, Nelson Lee, Jimmy Wong and Doua Moua in August,[15][23] and Chen Tang in September.[9]