Tom Cruise insisted that his costars be filmed in actual flying jets.
“You kind of don’t believe it.
“It was a lot of work,” admitsTopGun: MaverickdirectorJoseph Kosinski.
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.Paramount Pictures
“It was very tedious and difficult at times, but the footage speaks for itself.”
“We went up in the jets several times and… “Every movie’s a challenge, you know.
If you don’t have butterflies going into a project, it’s probably not the right thing.
Glen Powell takes to the skies in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.PARAMOUNT PICTURES
I had Tom, I had a great cast, and a story that we really believed in.
So we gave it our best shot.”
“He’s a pilot, and he’s done aerobatics, and he was in the firstTop Gun.
Did Powell throw up over his plane?
“Notonthe plane,” says the actor.
“You’ve got bags obviously.
I never missed a shot in the bag.”
“[That] took a lot of preparation,” says the director.
We ended up getting IMAX-quality cameras into the cockpit with the pilots and the actor.”
And it was very tedious you’re only getting a minute or two of good stuff every day.
But it’s the only way to get footage that looks like this.”
“You just feel the peril for everyone in the movie in a different way,” says Powell.
“If you were using CGI, audiences are very smart, they can tell the difference.
“It’s all about the story for Tom,” says the filmmaker.
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