Maggie Qkicks ass even more than you think.

The actress, now starring inThe Protege,has proven herself time and again with her stunt work.

When she got to set, Q assumed that everyone there knew her limitations and her recent medical experience.

Maggie Q The Protege

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But that was not the case.

“And he goes, ‘What surgery?’

And I was like, ‘No one told you that I had spine surgery?’

And I’ve never seen a grown man want to cry in that way so immediately.”

But Q powered through and was able to execute 98 percent of the stunts on her own.

I would want to do things that were absolutely ridiculous risk-wise.J.J.

So you got to have boundaries."

For more from Maggie Q, watch her interview with Lacey Vorrasi-Banis above.