After 25 years, Maggie Q reveals she didn't want her first acting role. “No interest.”
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Q, born Margaret Quigley in Honolulu to an American father and Vietnamese mother who met during the war, loved the arts, especially Shakespeare, but never thought she could make a livelihood doing it.
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Despite early success, she felt that way. She moved to Tokyo at 17 to model to pay for education. She then went to Hong Kong to star in House of the Dragon, an Asian hit .
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“That moment confirmed that being a creative could be an option in life. "That shocked me," she says. I had no idea what I was doing when I started.
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People looked at me like, ‘You call yourself a talent?’ I heard that. No argument. I had no experience and nothing to contribute.
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It wasn't like growing up with actors as parents or having innate skill. That wasn't mine. I had to learn everything.”
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Jackie Chan, a famous martial arts instructor, signed Q to his management organization to make her a star.
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Q was trained by Chan's core stunt squad of 10-15 performers, but she caught Chan's notice (for better or ill) when he cast her in small roles in his films like Rush Hour 2 (as "girl in car") and Around
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