Tom Cruise returns to the skies and takes us along for the ride in this behind-the-scenes look of 'Top Gun: Maverick.'
"My whole life, I've wanted to make movies or fly airplanes or go to space," Cruise says in a new featurette for the upcoming film. "I wanted to jump off buildings, go ride fast motorcycles... My life has just been filled with stories -- telling stories, creating characters."Cruise returns to his beloved character from the 1986 original.
"It's a film about competition," Cruise explains."It's about teamwork. It's a journey about a character, Maverick... he's someone who challenges authority and can't help himself." Behind the scenes, however, Cruise was the authority on the film's high-flying scenes, explaining that he put his younger co-stars through their paces so they would know what to expect from a real-life fighter pilot's perspective -- as well as how to film themselves in the cockpit with"I was able from that to create a whole program and a format for the actors, to train them to be able to get into an F-15 and to operate the cameras," he recalls.
"I get in the F-14, and we're doing three flights in one day and there is nothing you can do -- you're going to puke. First flight, I had that plastic right there," Cruise adds with a laugh. "So that's why right away I said, 'I'm going to teach you everything there is to know about what you’re going to go through in that aircraft, and by the time you sit in that F-18, it's not going to be a surprise to you like I had to go through.
Cruise's personal "all-encompassing aviation training" took his co-stars through a gauntlet of aviation experience, from a single-engine airplane, to an L-39, to the F-18 Super Hornet.
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