Top Gun 2, great anticipation on the screens. Jennifer Connelly: “I got over my fear of flying thanks to Tom’s guidance.”
There is great anticipation for the theatrical release of Top Gun 2 (or rather “Top Gun: Maverick”), a follow-up to the famous 1986 aviation film that consecrated Tom Cruise’s career. He also appears in the cast of the film Jennier Connelly, Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind, who during a video link with the Graham Norton Show revealed that he had always been afraid of flying but thank you Cruise she managed to overcome her fears.
“I was afraid to tell Tom about the paralyzing fear of flying that I had suffered for years – said the Connelly – and originally, when I signed to make the film, there were no flights for my character, who stayed on land or in water, never in the air. “The actress then found herself shooting a scene on a small plane P- 51 but thanks to her colleague she managed to overcome her fears. “Tom said something like ‘Jen, have you ever been on a plane like this before?’ and I thought ‘no, I didn’t, Tom. It’s incredible’. Then he added ‘Have you ever done aerobatics before?’ and there I started to get nervous. ‘No because? Will I have to do them? ‘ And he said, ‘It will be very graceful, very elegant. It will be very elegant movements, it will be beautiful and easy. ‘ So that’s how I found out I was going to be in a P-51 with Tom flying it. “
Top Gun 2, le date
Top Gun 2 is set 34 years after the events of the first film and directed by Joseph Kosinski. In the cast in addition to Jennifer Connelly, Tom Cruise e Val Kilmer (both will reprise their respective roles in the original film) are also there Glen Powell, Jon Hamm ed Ed Harris. This time the officer Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, now promoted to ship captain, mentor to Bradley, son of his flight companion Goose died during a training flight. The sequel film due to the Coronavirus pandemic will be released in US theaters on November 19, 2021.