Thandie Newton mastered on-screen kissing after her Mission: Impossible 2 co-star Tom Cruise took her aside for a tutorial in celluloid puckering up. The British beauty admits her smooching was "overenthusiastic", and love-scene veteran Cruise was forced to take Newton to a nearby monitor to play back the sequence.

Speaking on UK TV show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Friday, she said, "We did this scene where we had to kiss passionately at the end, and he stopped and said, 'Oh God, that was terrible. Come here and look.' And it was because I was so overenthusiastic. So it became very clinical by the end and there was a huge skill (involved)"