Hong Kong-based actress and martial artist Maggie Quigley said Friday that her hands were badly cut while filming car stunt scenes for the coming film Die Hard 4.0.

"Because of all the car stunts and because the car was completely mangled ... I was slicing my hands completely," Quigley, better known as Maggie Q, said at a Singapore news conference. "And there was a point where I had a Band-Aid on every single inch of my hand," The Associated Press reported.

"But that was about it. I was very cared for on this film. I'm so lucky," Quigley quickly added.

The latest installment in the Die Hard series, titled Live Free or Die Hard in the United States, revolves around a planned cyber-terror attack on the United States.

In the film, Bruce Willis teams up with Justin Long, who plays a computer hacker, to thwart the evil Mai, played by Quigley.

Audiences will get to see Quigley beat Willis up.

"It was slightly terrifying to hurt him in any way," Quigley said of Willis. "Not that I have the power to hurt him, but you know, accidents and what not."

The movie opens in Japan on June 23. It opens in the United States and elsewhere on June 27.

Quigley made her name in the Hong Kong film industry before moving on to Hollywood projects such as the recent action flick Mission: Impossible III, the comedy Rush Hour 2 and Jackie Chan's Around the World in 80 Days.

The actress grew up in Hawaii, the daughter of a Polish-Irish American father and a Vietnamese mother.
 
(Shanghai Daily June 15, 2007)