Tom Cruise Interview: Top Gun Maverick
Fans have waited with bated breath for decades to see Tom Cruise soar the skies once more, and Top Gun: Maverick has finally delivered beyond everyone's expectations. The sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun has already seen the highest Thursday gross ever for Paramount, with a lofty $150M opening projection, and received an incredible 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating. After all this time, audiences can once more meet Peter «Maverick» Mitchell (Cruise) — but now he's an older and wiser commander looking after eager recruits instead of being the restless youth ready to prove his worth.
While Top Gun: Maverick boasts a large ensemble cast that fleshes out the naval aviators far beyond Maverick's immediate reach, he remains the central axis around which the story revolves. Fans get a peek at the romance in his life, thanks to former flame Penny Benjamin (Jennifer Connelly, Snowpiercer), as well as significant connections such as to Goose's son Rooster (Miles Teller, The Offer). Furthermore, viewers will be thrilled and moved by the touching reunion between Maverick and Top Gun's Iceman (played by Val Kilmer).
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Screen Rant had the chance to catch Cruise on the Top Gun: Maverick red carpet, where he gushed about the significance of his moment with Iceman as well as defended the supposedly tough training the ensemble cast went through.
Screen Rant: The movie is so fun, but also so emotional, and I think one of the most emotional components is reuniting you with Val Kilmer. How do you describe that reunion?
Tom Cruise: I think people just have to see it; I don't even want to try. He's such a fine actor, and you see what he brings to this movie; the power that he
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