Gina Gershon reveals her first sex scene didn’t necessarily go as planned.
this Borderlands actress recently appeared in Watch live broadcastshe shared that her “first love scene” was with Tom Cruise in the 1988 film cocktailpointing out that he is a complete “gentleman.” However, she was left mortified when she accidentally “kneed him in the nose” while filming.
“At one point, he started hiding under the covers and I told him I was ticklish,” Gerson told Andy Cohen. “I said, ‘No, no, don’t ever do that.’ During one take — and I think he wanted a reaction — he grabbed me in the stomach and I kneed him in the nose.
she continued. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just broke Tom Cruise’s nose.'” He said, “No, no, you told me.” I said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and he said, “No, it’s my fault. And he was overprotective of me. He’s great.
cocktailDirected by Roger Donaldson, the film follows Brian (Cruise), a New York City business student and bartender who takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and ends up falling in love with artist Jordan (Elizabeth Shue). Koral, a photographer played by Gershon, is cheating on Brian with his business partner Doug (Bryan Brown), which is why Brian decides to move to Jamaica in the first place.
Gershon also told Cohen that Cruise’s then-wife Mimi Rogers (they were married from 1987 to 1990) was “very present” throughout the filming of the romantic comedy because they were “freshly married.” but killer joe The actress noted that she and Cruise “literally kissed as much as possible” in the movie.
She added, “Every scene is like, ‘Should we kiss in the scene?'” “Oh, yeah, I think we should kiss.”
