It's not considering she was "criticized" for voicing Nadine in Uncharted 4. I'm guessing she wanted to avoid similar (IMO BS) backlash WRT Chun-Li in SFVI.
Anyway the roster's been revealed and interestingly some of the leaked characters aren't in the opening roster. Mainly A.K.I so, is she the new big bad and they don't want to spoil her yet due to that, or is she straight-up not in the game at the start? Rashid's also MIA in that opening lineup, two other characters as well but I forgot who they were.
Not a problem for me because the ones I'd want to main (Manon, Chun-Li, Ken, Kimberly, Dee Jay, Q/G-looking dude, Guile) are in the starting roster but I was looking forward to A.K.I as well so that is kind of a bummer.
18 it seems like, and no Balrog or Dudley in the opening roster. They might come back as DLC characters tho; I'd like them both to come back but would prefer Dudley first.