Tom Cruise Steals A Brad Pitt Movie Trick In Top Gun 2
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is moving from playing arrogant heroes to a more wizened type of leading man, and Brad Pitt’s role in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood offers the actor an ideal blueprint for this change. In director Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt played with audience expectations in the role of Cliff Booth. A stuntman who spent very little of the languidly paced movie performing stunts until the barnstorming climax, Booth was a more over-the-hill sort of hero than Pitt typically played, and the role allowed the actor to laugh at his aging while remaining a matinee idol and an action hero.
Now that Top Gun: Maverick is finally arriving in theaters after myriad delays, Tom Cruise’s performance in the title role could repeat this trick.Top Gun: Maverick’s trailers make it clear that the sequel can laugh at the excesses of Top Gun, and the few lines that Maverick has in the teaser imply that Cruise may be able to do the same. The movie from Joseph Kosinski will follow Cruise's Maverick training young pilots after intentionally avoiding rank promotions in the decades that followed the events of Top Gun. However, the sequel allows the opportunity for a character rebrand.
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Like Pitt’s turn in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick role may prove that the actor can age gracefully and maintain a sense of humor while also still playing action heroes. However, this means Cruise can treat Top Gun: Maverick as a chance to hit the brakes for the first time in a while. Since the Mission Impossible movies rely on Cruise’s wild stunts, Top Gun: Maverick is the actor’s first opportunity in a while to leave the heavy lifting to
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