Pom Klementieff couldn’t abdomen Tom Cruise whereas filming Mission: Not possible – Useless Reckoning Half One. 

“I saved telling him to only kick me right here,” the actress mentioned in an interview with EW, pointing to her midsection. “I used to be squeezing abs. ‘You’ll be able to simply go for it. He was like ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ I used to be like, ‘However it’s going to assist me!’ However he wouldn’t do it.”

Klementieff performs Paris within the new Mission Not possible, partnered with the primary villain, Gabriel, performed by Esai Morales. The request for the abdomen kick got here throughout her combat with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character.

The actress, who additionally performed Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, says her character is somebody who “destroys every thing in her path. She’s a insurgent, she’s a killer, she’s extraordinarily expert and fairly lonely too.”

Klementieff mentioned her movie title is an homage to Leonard Nimoy, who performed the Nice Paris on the unique Mission: Not possible TV present. “When Christopher McQuarrie solid me for the position, he didn’t know which title the character would have,” she says. “It was cool to call me Paris, me being from France, after which they determined that I’d converse French as a result of I converse French in actual life.”

Mission: Not possible – Useless Reckoning Half One will hit theaters July 12.