Maggie Q will play a member of the Dauntless in the movie version of the popular book, Divergent.
The actress talked to the Los Angeles Times about her role.
“It’s interesting, because Tori is the only female Dauntless member that you meet, that you actually get to know, who’s been Dauntless for a while, and you want to get the sense that when you see her — and it was very important for me and Neil and hair and makeup to decide that — you know that this is a woman who knows exactly who she is,” said Q. “She’s been Dauntless for a while. It’s something that she chose, and she chose it for a reason, because it is truly, organically a part of who she is. It wasn’t about her looking tough.”
Q is well aware that with roles in in Live Free or Die Hard, Mission: Impossible III, Priest, and more–not to mention the emmy-nominated Nikita–she’s one of the few women to star in action movies.
“It’s so true. It’s very interesting that you say that, because I remember when I started in action, journalists would say to me, “Yeah, cool, you did this action movie. When are you going to do a real movie?” It wasn’t actually cool to be involved in this genre. It was sort of like the anti-acting. And now you’ve got [Robert] Downey Jr. playing Iron Man, You’ve got all these really A-list people moving into this genre that I’ve been having fun in for years.”