'Top Gun: Maverick' just released a featurette and Tom Cruise is as cool as ever!
April 19, 2022 12:46pmThe video revealed that the action star and his fellow actors flew actual fighter jets for their scenes.
Cruise said that he wasn't up for a sequel until technology has evolved so they could tell a story worth telling, and realistically too. "I wasn't ready to make a sequel until we had a special story worthy of a sequel and technology evolved so we can delve deeper into the experiences of a fighter pilot," he said.
"We worked with the Navy and the Top Gun school to formulate how to shoot it practically. Because if we’re going to do it, we’re going to fly in the F-18s," he added."I started them out in single-engine airplanes, to build out their spacial awareness inside the aircraft. Next, we took them to the L-39, and they went and flew aerobatics to feel what it’s like in a jet," he said.