Pom Klementieff Is Hooked on Skydiving, Thanks to Tom Cruise

Pom Klementieff had simply checked into her resort room in London, and she or he was nonetheless relishing the butter rooster she had consumed an hour in the past.

“It’s summertime, but it feels like winter — because London is always like that,” she mentioned in a name final month. “So I’m like, ‘OK, I need Indian food.’”

The 37-year-old actress, identified for her fan-favorite flip because the empathetic alien Mantis in Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Avengers” movies, was on the second metropolis of the world promotional tour for her subsequent superventure, “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” wherein she performs an murderer looking Tom Cruise’s character.

“I love playing a villain,” Klementieff, chipper and candid, mentioned of her character, Paris, who was based mostly on a male character from the unique TV sequence that impressed the “Mission: Impossible” movies. “There’s something cathartic and a little bit insane about it that’s really enjoyable.”

The seventh “Mission: Impossible” movie allowed her to train her stuntwork chops, like her boxing and taekwondo coaching, that had lain a bit dormant throughout her flip within the Marvel movies.

“Mantis isn’t the most physical fighter,” she mentioned. “So this was fun to get to play a rebel who loves killing, fighting, chasing.”

Klementieff mentioned how Tom Cruise acquired her hooked on skydiving, why “Gone Girl” is her consolation watch and why she’s been obsessive about Jessica Chastain’s efficiency in “A Doll’s House” on Broadway. These are edited excerpts from the dialog.

1

‘Gone Girl’

I like watching it on Valentine’s Day after I’m single, or on Christmas after I’m slightly low due to household stuff. It’s my feel-good film.

2

Motorcycles

I taught myself to experience within the streets and the countryside in France. But now I’m truly doing correct coaching and I find it irresistible. I’m studying how one can perform a little skid, doing stoppies — I wish to discover ways to do a wheelie subsequent!

3

Doing My Nails

I like when nail polish has a reputation that makes me snort — Natural Connection, Sexy Divide. Usually I do the identical shade on each nail, or generally I do lilac on one hand however with the ring finger inexperienced, after which the opposite hand I do inexperienced with a lilac ring finger.

4

Horseback Riding

I discovered a ranch in Colorado that I like to go to — it’s my completely happy place. I’ve a horse there I like referred to as Mister T. He’s wonderful. He goes so quick, however he listens, too. There are dunes so it appears like Star Wars; it appears such as you’re nearly on the moon. It’s simply gorgeous.

5

@tattooist_doy

There’s this unimaginable artist in Korea I like — his Instagram deal with is @tattooist_doy. He makes such delicate, intricate, lovely tattoos. Years in the past after I was in Korea to advertise “Avengers,” he inked a candy violet on my forearm. It’s slightly flower I used to choose with my uncle within the woods after I was little. I’m planning to get one other one with him the following time I’m going to Asia.

6

Quentin Tarantino

I keep in mind falling in love with “Kill Bill” when it got here out in theaters in Paris. It’s one of many motion pictures that made me wish to develop into an actress. It made me wish to assert my confidence.

7

Not-Safe-for-Work Socks

One of my brokers years in the past had a pair of socks that mentioned “[expletive] you, pay me,” and I used to be like, “I need those socks.” So I purchased them, and after I put on them, they make me snort.

8

Baking

I get pleasure from baking as a result of the steps need to be proper, and the sizes need to be on level. I like making lemon meringue pie, and I’ll draw a coronary heart on it with raspberries. I like to make chocolate fondant; it’s very easy. I used to try this for my boyfriends, after I had boyfriends, a very long time in the past!

9

Skydiving

I’ve jumped 104 occasions since October 2021, when Tom Cruise gifted me skydiving classes as a wrap present. I like the frenzy, I like the precision, I like how sharp it makes me. When I bounce off a hot-air balloon very early within the morning and the solar is rising and it smells like mist — it’s magical.

10

Jessica Chastain in ‘A Doll’s House’

There’s one thing so magical and galvanizing about watching reside theater. When you’re onstage, it’s such as you’re skydiving. You’re leaping into the void. There’s nobody like, “Oh, there’s a second take or a third take” or “Oh, someone is going to edit it.” It’s proper right here, proper now. I noticed Jessica Chastain in “A Doll’s House” just lately, and she or he was so uncooked and weak. I can’t cease serious about it.