"I feel like a badass," Liang told
TVLine ahead of the first episode. "This show is my first real experience with martial arts, and I feel so privileged that I get to learn it for my job.
"Doing these beautifully choreographed fight sequences, it just really makes me feel strong, and it's really translating into my personal life of just feeling a lot more powerful and a lot taller and stronger and bigger and just ready to take on the world."
While its predecessor, which starred David Carradine, followed a white man, this new reboot celebrates Asian culture with its predominantly Asian and Asian American cast – something that Liang says she loves but also finds "jarring" given what is happening in the world right now when it comes to anti-Asian hate crimes.