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“Those weren’t stories that we were throwing around,” Kosinski saidin an interview with Insiderpublished Tuesday.
Gillis, 64, previously played Top Gun instructor Charlie Blackwood while Ryan, 60, portrayed Goose’s wife Carole Bradshaw in the 1986 action movie.
However, according to Kosinski, filmmakers wanted to do something different withTop Gun: Maverickcompared to the original film.
“I didn’t want every storyline to always be looking backwards,” Kosinski said. “It was important to introduce some new characters.”
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McGillis said shehad not been asked to returnforTop Gun: Maverickduring a July 2019 interview withEntertainment Tonight, explaining, “I look age appropriate for what my age is and that is not what that whole scene is about.”
“To me, I’d much rather feel absolutely secure in my skin and who and what I am at my age as opposed to placing a value on all that other stuff,” she added.
For the film,Tom Cruisewill reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, whileVal Kilmerreturns as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.
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Speaking withEntertainment Tonightat the May 4 premiere at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, Cruise said he “really rallied hard” for Kilmer to join the film.
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“The kind of talent that he has, and you see that scene, it’s very special, it’s just very special,” he continued, speaking of a powerful scene in the film.
Top Gunproducer Jerry Bruckheimer told PEOPLE in August 2021 that Cruise “really wanted” Kilmer in the new film.
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“He said, ‘We have to have Val, we have to have him back. We have to have him in the film,'” Bruckheimer recalled at the time. “And he was the driving force. We all wanted him, but Tom was really adamant that if he’s going to make another Top Gun, Val had to be in it.”
He added of Kilmer, “He’s such a fine actor, and he’s such a good individual. We had such a good time on the first one and wanted to bring some of the gang back together again.”
Top Gun: Maverick(2022).
Top Gun: Maverickwill also feature performances fromJennifer Connellyas Penelope “Penny” Benjamin, Miles Teller as Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, Ed Harris as Rear Admiral Cole,Jon Hammas Vice Admiral “Cyclone” and Glen Powell as Lieutenant “Hangman” Seresin, among others.
“And then Tom [Cruise] invited me to come sit down with him,” Powell explained. “And we sat down for a couple hours and talked about his life and his career and how he chooses movies, and how he develops roles and those sort of things.”
“And it was really a series of those conversations that convinced me that this could be a role that could actually be exciting, that I could have a little bit of creative license,” he continued. “I could make it my own and make something that could be really special.”
Top Gun: Maverickhits theaters on May 27.
source: people.com
