Does Tom Cruise Fly In Top Gun 2?
Tom Cruise is famous for his insistence on doing his own stunts, and Top Gun: Maverick is no exception. After repeated delays, Top Gun: Maverick is finally set to release on May 27, with Tom Cruise's Maverick once more taking to the skies as part of the TOPGUN program. The sequel will see Maverick taking on the role of an instructor, and will also feature Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley «Rooster» Bradshaw, son of Maverick's late wingman Goose.
Although Top Gun: Maverick's differences might prove Cruise has changed in the decades since the original film, the sequel also affords the actor an opportunity to continue one of his most common career habits. Cruise has developed a penchant for doing his own stunts, something which has regularly become a factor in the making of his Mission: Impossible franchise. Cruise's two main reasons for completing his own stunts are simple: he enjoys the danger, and he believes it makes his films better.
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However, in a franchise like Top Gun, where so much of the action involves the use of military aircraft, Cruise completing his own stunts might seem less plausible. However, for Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise's stunts will be his own, and the film uses no green screens, meaning that all of its aerial stunts will be completed. It seems that Cruise completed almost every stunt seen in the film, with one notable exception.
Cruise is a certified pilot, and even has specific experience in the realms of aerial feats used in his films — he completed many of Mission: Impossible — Fallout's impressive helicopter stunts. In fact, Cruise only agreed to return for Top Gun: Maverick on the condition that its stunts be done for real, and
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