Tom Cruisehelped pilotGlen Powell’s performance inTop Gun: Maverickwith some advice: lean into the douchebaggery.
“Sometimes you might fall into the trap of wanting to be liked on camera,” Powell said.
Everybody else in the movie is questioning their own ability.
Glen Powell and Tom Cruise.Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
You’re the only guy that’s not questioning it.
So if there’s any sort of apology in anything you say, the movie doesn’t work.
Maybe that’s just what I’m going to do,'" he recalled.
“And he convinced me that there’s room for two.
And I’m really happy, because everything I learned onTop Gungot to be infused intoDevotion.”
Powell isn’t the only pupil of the Tom Cruise School of Advice.
I said, ‘I’m just feeling a bit panicky about the whole shoot.’
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