Superstar U60 accepts the “hell training” course to play the role of a super pilot

3 months of flight training, underwater survival training, getting out of an airplane blindfolded… Tom Cruise challenged the limits and wowed fans.

3 months of air training, underwater survival training, getting out of an airplane blindfolded… actor Tom Cruise went through these things decades ago, and he continues to challenge himself. body to return perfectly for the role of pilot in part 2 of Top Gun – the movie that catapulted him to the status of a Hollywood superstar.

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Top Gun (1986) once conquered viewers around the world with the talented and courageous pilot Pete Mitchell (nicknamed Maverick) played by Tom Cruise. The heart-stopping aerial action, the chase scenes of the fighters, the touching story of friendship or the sweet deposition of love, all have turned Top Gun into a movie. symbol for American culture. Returning in part 2, Maverick is no longer a student of Top Gun School but will become a trainee trainer. The film promises to bring many unexpected developments when Maverick will meet old acquaintances and face obsessions from the past.

Besides the content, dramatic action scenes with fighters – Top Gun’s trademark – are also of great interest. Even more surprising to fans is that Tom Cruise personally designed the training course for himself and the actors participating in Top Gun 2. The film’s producer – Jerry Bruckheimer, had to admire the professionalism of the actor. actor as he completed his own stunts, including breathtaking fighter jet scenes.

“Tom designed this program” Jerry Bruckheimer in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter “Tom went through all of that 35 years ago. And he said: ‘I’ll do them again’. He shouldn’t have needed to, but Tom insisted: ‘If they (the other actors) did, I would do it too.”

The training began with three months of intense aerial training, where the actor had to contend with G-forces – the phantom force of inertia produced by sudden changes in direction or speed, so common in airships. labour. The G-force can cause a pilot to lose consciousness while on duty and cause severe bodily harm if the threshold is exceeded.

Next, they have to practice water survival skills, in case something goes wrong while filming the scene on the plane.

To create pressure and experience the real tension, the actors were pushed into the plane in a state of being doused with water, blindfolded, and had to find a way out of the cockpit.

Tom Cruise also insisted that the actor playing a fighter pilot should be able to directly fly a fighter plane. Thanks to that, director Kosinski was able to get the most realistic frames, from the camera angle placed in the cockpit, with the actors actually experiencing the extreme tension and terrible pressure of a pilot. fight.

The film possesses dramatic and realistic footage, thanks to the fact that the actor directly performs action scenes, typically the scenes of flying fighter planes.

Top Gun: Maverick received a shower of praise from critics at Cannes, a recognition for the efforts of Tom Cruise, the cast and crew at large.

The film will be released worldwide on May 27, 2022 and is expected to become a blockbuster for the summer of 2022.