Tom Cruise does not approve of his co-star Pom Klementieff's idea in the upcoming Mission Impossible 7: to kick her in the stomach for the scene.
The request from Marvel came on the sequence set in Venice when her character Paris, a villain in the film, has a fight scene with the daring spy.
"I kept telling him to just kick me here," the actress told EW, referring to her guts.
"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."
The 37-year-old further explained her villainous character as someone who "destroys everything in her path. She's a rebel; she's a killer; she's extremely skilled and quite lonely too."
Meanwhile, Klementieff performance in theGuardians of the Galaxy Vol: 2 as Mantis has caught the attention of the MI7 filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, who described her as "very, very, very much a chaotic element in the story. It doesn't matter how deep in the background she is; you're going to be watching her at all times and wondering what she's going to do."