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Guardians of the Galaxy star reveals she head-butts Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7

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Guardians of the Galaxy star Pom Klementieff has revealed she head-butts Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.

The actress, who plays Mantis in the MCU series, will play the secondary villain in the upcoming action film, getting the chance to face off against Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.

In an interview with Esquire, Klementieff teased the seventh instalment in the action franchise, revealing that she gets into a scuffle with the IMF agent.

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“Yeah, [possibly],” she said when asked if she head-butted Cruise. “But actually, head-butting is hard for the person who fakes getting hit.

"It's hard to do it because you have to do it several times in a row, you have to look [in] a certain direction, and you have to stop at the right angle depending on where the camera is. It super f***s up your neck. But I love all the very precise stuff.”

Dead Reckoning Part One will be followed by Part Two next year, with the two-parter rumoured to be Cruise’s final appearance in the franchise. Despite the gossip, director Christopher McQuarrie recently teased that a ninth film could yet happen.

“Look, we're still shooting [Dead Reckoning Part Two] and there's any number of ways that that story could play out,” he said. “When you're watching Mission: Impossible, and watching the team go through these adventures, you're having some sense of what it's like to make a Mission: Impossible movie.

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“There's always a plan, the plan always changes, everything goes completely awry, and hopefully everything always turns out alright in the end,” he added. “But you never really fully understand, or trust where it is you're going, until you get there.”

As well as Klementieff, the new cast for the film comprises Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales and Shea Whigham; returning cast members include Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is released in UK cinemas on July 11 and in US cinemas on July 12.

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