Top Gun 2: Miles Teller's Full Great Balls Of Fire Performance Released
Miles Teller's full performance of «Great Balls Of Fire» in Top Gun: Maverick has been released. The actor plays Bradley «Rooster» Bradshaw in the sequel, the son of Nick «Goose» Bradshaw in the first film. To emphasize that parallel, director Joseph Kosinski had Teller sing the same song that Anthony Edwards rocked to in Tony Scott's original Top Gun film.
Unlike a lot of long-time-coming sequels, Top Gun: Maverick was able to both please fans of the 1986 film and bring in new ones to the franchise. Interestingly, it did so by leaning on nostalgia. In the sequel, Tom Cruise returns as Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, who is called back to TOPGUN to train the younger generation for an extremely dangerous mission. Among his students is Rooster; the pair's relationship is the film's emotional core, following their falling out. For Maverick, he remains haunted by the death of Goose, and the pain of losing him all comes back when he sees the younger Bradshaw performing «Great Balls of Fire.»
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While the film never fully showed Rooster's performance of the song, as Top Gun: Maverick focused on Maverick's reaction to watching it, Paramount Pictures has now released Teller singing the whole song Jerry Lewis song. The scene also includes the reactions of his fellow pilots, who dance and sing along. Watch the full clip below:
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Kosinski opted to not bring back a lot of characters from the original Top Gun film. Aside from Cruise's Maverick, only Val Kilmer's Tom «Iceman» Kazansky joins him, because he is integral to the story and is not just a shoe-horned cameo. The filmmaker wanted the sequel to move the story forward and not be anchored
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