When Maggie Q shot the high-octane thriller “The Protégé” in January 2020, the 42-year-old actress was still recovering from a major operation …
When Maggie Q shot the high-octane thriller “The Protégé” in January 2020, the 42-year-old actress was still recovering from a major operation on her spine two months prior. That didn’t stop her from kicking ass, jumping off balconies and being hit by a speeding car to play a vengeful assassin named Anna. “I didn’t have time to train because I had come out of surgery, and then I was on bed rest and then I had to go right into making this film,” she told The Post. “I wish I’d had the opportunity to hit [training] hard, and learn 500 moves and have five months to [learn them].” But she didn’t. So Q relied on her years of conditioning work with Jackie Chan in the late ’90s and early aughts to quickly get into fighting form for the new film, out Friday. “Because of my background and my 20 years of experience, I was able to bring to the table that muscle memory,” she said. “It was intense.” Born Margaret Quigley in Honolulu, Q was raised in Hawaii by her Vietnamese mother and Polish and Irish-American father.
