Tom Cruise Refused to Kick Pom Klementieff in the Stomach During ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Fight: ‘I Kept Telling Him to Just Kick Me’

Tom Cruise will ride a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, but kicking a co-star in the chest is apparently where he draws the line.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” co-star Pom Klementieff said she practically begged him to kick her in the stomach for real while they were filming a fight scene.

Cruise refused to do so.“I kept telling him to just kick me here,” Klementieff said while pointing to her stomach.

“I was squeezing abs.

[I said], ‘You can just go for it.’ He was like ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ I was like, ‘But it’s going to help me!’ But he wouldn’t do it.”Klementieff, best known for playing Mantis in James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies and the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, is joining the “Mission: Impossible” franchise in its seventh installment as Paris,…

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