Gina Gershon is revealing how her first sex scene didn’t necessarily go as planned.
The Borderlands actress made a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, where she shared that her “first love scene ever” was with Tom Cruise in 1988’s Cocktail, noting that he was a complete “gentleman.” However, she was left mortified after she accidentally “kneed him right in the nose” while filming.
“At one point, he starts off under the covers, and I told him I was very ticklish,” Gershon recounted to host Andy Cohen. “I said, ‘No, no, don’t ever do that.’ And in one take — I think he wanted a reaction — and he grabbed my stomach, and I kneed him right in the nose.”
She continued. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I just broke Tom Cruise’s nose.’ He’s like, ‘No, no, you told me.’ I’m like, ‘I’m so sorry,’ he was like, ‘No, it was my fault.’ And he was so overprotective over me. He was great.”
Cocktail, directed by Roger Donaldson, 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 (Elisabeth Shue). Gershon played Coral, a photographer who cheats on Brian with his business partner Doug (Bryan Brown), which is why Brian initially decided to move to Jamaica.
Gershon also told Cohen that Cruise’s then-wife Mimi Rogers — they were married from 1987 to 1990 — “was very present” on set throughout filming for the romantic-comedy drama as they had “just gotten married.” But the Killer Joe actress noted that she and Cruise “did kiss as much as we could” in the movie.
She added, “Every scene it was like, ‘Should we kiss in the scene?’ ‘Oh yeah, I think we should kiss.’”
