Showgirls star Gina Gershon reveals she almost BROKE Tom Cruise’s nose when he tickled her during sex scene for 1988 classic Cocktail

How­ev­er, things did­n’t go exact­ly to plan as Gina — who was in her 20s at the time — was left fear­ing her Hol­ly­wood career was over when she injured megas­tar Tom.

She recalled how Tom was meant to be under the cov­ers before pop­ping up dur­ing the raunchy scene, but she had warned him in advance not to tick­le her because she is very tick­lish.

How­ev­er, Tom acci­den­tal­ly tick­led her while grab­bing her waist, lead­ing to her unin­ten­tion­al­ly lash­ing out and near­ly break­ing his nose

She told The Guardian: ‘Right before the take, he was down there and grabbed my waist in a tick­ly, sweet man­ner, I did­n’t mean to, but I had a knee­jerk reac­tion right into his nose. 

Gina Ger­shon (pic­tured in May) has detailed the shock­ing moment she almost broke Tom Cruise’s nose when he tick­led her dur­ing a sex scene 

It was full of blood, I thought: ”I just broke Tom Cruise’s nose, I will nev­er work in Hol­ly­wood again”. 

‘I was mor­ti­fied because I real­ly kicked him good, I did­n’t mean to.’

Though she ini­tial­ly feared for her career, Gina said ‘gen­tle­man’ Tom insist­ed it was his fault because she had warned him in advance and was very ‘kind and sweet’ with her.

Despite the mishap, Gina said she is still glad that she filmed her first ever sex scene with Tom, insist­ing he was very ‘pro­tec­tive’ of her and made sure to put her at ease.

Cock­tail fol­lowed Tom’s char­ac­ter Bri­an Flana­gan, who is fresh off a stint in the army and is pur­su­ing a busi­ness degree while work­ing as a bar­tender in Man­hat­tan.

He learns the tricks of the trade from his busi­ness part­ner Doug (Bryan Brown) before dis­cov­er­ing his friend has slept with his roman­tic inter­est Coral (Gina).

Bri­an then moves to Jamaica where he meets Jor­dan (Elis­a­beth Shue) and they fall in love, while he con­tin­ues to bat­tle chal­lenges as he tries to pur­sue his orig­i­nal dream.

While the film was panned by crit­ics, it earned $78.2million domes­tic ($207.6million in 2024 when adjust­ed for infla­tion) and $171.5million world­wide ($455.4 mil­lion in 2024), tak­ing the ninth spot on the year-end box office top 10.

In anoth­er insight into her career, Gina also recent­ly revealed her agents advised her against tak­ing a les­bian role in the 1996 neo-noir crime thriller Bound.

Gina, 62, played a les­bian ex-cop who was in a roman­tic rela­tion­ship with Jen­nifer Tilly’s char­ac­ter in the Wachowskis-direct­ed film.

Speak­ing on the It Hap­pened In Hol­ly­wood pod­cast, Gina said her agents told her not to play Corky — even telling her the role kill would her chances at a suc­cess­ful act­ing career.

But, impressed by the script and the the film­mak­ers, Gina went against their advice and joined the cast any­way.

She detailed: ‘It was a great script and I could tell they were incred­i­ble direc­tors, but my agents were like, “We will not let you do this movie. You are ruin­ing your career. We will not be able to let you rep­re­sent. You will nev­er work again.“ ‘ 

Unde­terred by their words, Gina shared: ‘I just said, “Oh, well, I guess if you can’t rep­re­sent me, I’ll go some­where else.” You know? No hard feel­ings.’

The Hol­ly­wood actress also took issue with the fact the film was being referred to mere­ly as a ‘les­bian movie’ — when it spoke to larg­er issues.

‘I said, first of all, it’s so short­sight­ed to say, “Oh, this is a les­bian movie.” I mean, they hap­pen to be les­bians,’ she said. 

‘They hap­pen to be into women, but it’s real­ly a movie about trust.