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Top 10 Amazing Facts about Pom Klementieff

Pom Alexandra Klementieff is a French actress and model. She was trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Â鶹APP and appeared in such French films as The Easy Way (2008) and Sleepless Night (2011), before making her American film debut in Oldboy (2013).

Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, to a Korean mother and Russian-French father Alexis Klementieff, who was working there as a consul with the government of France. She is a French citizen.

Her grandfather was the Russian painter Eugene Klementieff.[8] Her parents chose the name “Pom” because it is similar in pronunciation to the Korean words for both “spring”  and “tiger”. Here are the Top 10 amazing facts about Pom Klementieff.

1. She’s a martial artist

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Due to decades and decades of martial art movies from Asian countries, it can be a bit stereotypical to assume all Asian people know a form of martial art but in the case of Pom Klementieff, that assumption would not be wrong.

The actress, for her Hollywood movie debut, took boxing lessons because her role involved martial arts. After the movie, she continued learning the art and, in the summer of 2014, earned the purple belt in Taekwondo.

2. She befriended nomads for a movie scene

It would not be surprising to those who have seen her character in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and Avengers: Infinity War to know that Pom’s got a quirky personality.

In her first lead role in a film, Loup, a French film about a reindeer herder tribe in the Siberian mountains, Pom stayed in the movie camp and during filming. She also befriended the nomads who lived there, worked with real wolves, rode a reindeer and swam with a horse in a lake.

3. She went to law school for a while

Before starring on the silver screen Pom worked as a waitress and saleswoman in France.  She also attended law school for a short period of time, before following her true passion: Acting.

At the age of 19, Pom enrolled at the Cours Florent drama school in Â鶹APP, and went on to win a theatre competition that gave her free classes with the school’s top teachers for two years. Klementieff briefly attended law school after her uncle’s death to appease her aunt but did not find the career path appealing.

4. She gives her film character a personal touch

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For her role in the low-budget flick Hacker’s Game she did her own makeup and came up with the costuming for her character, even dying her hair purple. Her big break came when she was cast as the empath Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

To complete Mantis’ alien look Pom had to wear all-black contact lenses, which left her worried that Mantis’ emotions might not be so obvious to audiences. The talented star told Interview Magazine she found physical ways to showcase how Mantis was feeling, taking unlikely inspiration from the hand gestures of The Simpsons devious Mr. Burns.

5. She accidentally fell down the stairs on a film role

Klementieff’s first professional acting job was the French independent film Après lui (2007), portraying the stepdaughter of the protagonist played by Catherine Deneuve. Filming for her scenes took three days. During one scene, Klementieff was supposed to push someone down a set of stairs but accidentally fell down the stairs herself, and director Gaël Morel kept that shot in the final film.

6. She received worldwide recognition playing Mantis

Klementieff received worldwide recognition when she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Mantis, appearing in the films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

In 2019, she appeared in an episode of the Netflix science fiction anthology series Black Mirror, the thriller film Uncut Gems, and had voice roles in the animated supernatural comedy film The Addams Family. In 2020, she had a recurring role as Martel in the HBO science fiction series Westworld.

7. She experienced many deaths in her formative years

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Klementieff’s father died of cancer when she was five, and her mother had schizophrenia and was unable to care for children, so Klementieff was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt.

Her uncle, whom she described as “like [her] second father”, died on her 18th birthday, and her older brother Namou died by suicide seven years later, on her 25th birthday.

8. She learnt skydiving for a film

Klementieff is never shy to go all out for a role she plays. She has outdone herself quite a number of times. ‘One of the craziest things that I’ve done in my life that I’m really happy to have done is that when I wrapped ‘Mission Impossible’, I went to learn skydiving.

I got my A license and then I got my B license over Christmas break. It really opened a new world to me, it was so exciting to be able to fly, to dance in the sky. It was really amazing.’

9. She travelled widely as a child

While Klementieff was born in Quebec, Canada where they  lived for a year, her family started traveling due to her father’s job. The family lived in Japan and the Ivory Coast, before settling in France.

‘I think it helped me to adapt to different cultures, to different worlds and to different types of people. And in some way, it’s funny, because I’ve always felt like an alien, I’ve always felt different. When I lived in Japan, my mother was Korean and I was mixed. I was also not like them when I was in Africa and I was not like them either when I was in France. I was always the person from somewhere else, like an alien, like Mantis.’

10. She does not believe in God

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It can be said that Pom is an Atheist. Pom doesn’t believe in God, and she says that she never will believe in God. As we know, she belongs to a diverse ancestry by being born to a French-Russian father and Korean mother.

11. She had her first Hollywood breakthrough in 2013

Klementieff made her Hollywood debut in Spike Lee’s Oldboy (2013), a remake of the South Korean film of the same name. She portrayed Haeng-bok, the bodyguard of the antagonist played by Sharlto Copley.

A fan of the original film, Klementieff heard about the part through Roy Lee, a producer with the remake, and took boxing lessons after learning the role involved martial arts. After showcasing her boxing skills during her audition, Lee asked her to go home and come back wearing a more feminine outfit and make-up, like her character in the film.[5][6] She contributed some of her own clothes to the character’s wardrobe, and trained three hours a day for two months for an on-screen fight with star Josh Brolin.