The “Top Gun: Maverick” stars have become good friends close enough for pranks.
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Glen Powell and Tom Cruise promote “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022.Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
“The one thing I feel we’re kindred spirits in is he’s obsessed with movies.
That was our love language on set,” Powell said.
“I got to watch a guy who knew every department.
“Top Gun: Maverick” hit theaters in May 2022.Scott Garfield/Paramount
Cruise, who starred in the originalTop Gunin 1986, produced the sequel.
For example, Powell knows that everyone can relate to weather emergencies.
“No, no.
How do you put the audience in the cockpit?
How do you put the audience on the ground in the face of a tornado?”
Cruise instructed him to “lean into the douchebaggeryof it all.”
