Though she’s proud of the outcome, Brown—mom to a baby girl with husband Jake Bongiovi—admitted that performing in the action-packed scenes felt upside down at first. 

“I’m really scared about doing my own stunts. Stunts are scary,” she said. “You’re just like, ‘I’m not physically trained to do this.’”

But if it means inspiring more female actors to take the leap into doing their own stunts, she’s happy to lead the charge.

“I really want young girls to think they can, you know? You’ll always hear an older actor say, ‘Don’t do your own stunts,’ and I get that,” Brown told Josh Horowitz at the June 24 live recording of his Happy Sad Confused podcast at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, according to People. “But back in the day, they might have been throwing you against a wall.”

“And now,” she added, “if you get a really great stunt coordinator and you learn how to land and you learn the whole technique of it, we as actors should know how to do certain things.”

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