Chan began teaching Q martial arts and eventually cast her in his movie Rush Hour 2.
Hawaiian actress Maggie Q has been turning heads ever since high school.
But her acting work has been much more successful.
Unsurprisingly, Ripa has been hosting the show solo ever since.
In retrospect, this could have been due in part to the contact high she undoubtedly received from being near Sean Penn every day during filming.
She claimed it was to further her racing career, but one has to imagine it may have been to get as far away from Wisconsin as humanly possible.