In the words of filmmaker Joseph Kosinski, Tom Cruise had to give 100% effort to film the scene with Jennifer Connelly.
Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the eighties classic, has strengthened Tom Cruise's professional career. The good performance of the film, supported by excellent reviews, makes it one of the most successful action sagas of recent times in the film industry.
But reaching the top of the arena required a lot of effort and some risks on the part of the filmmakers and actors. This is according to the film's director, Joseph Kosinski, who revealed what was the most complicated scene for the protagonist to shoot.
According to the filmmaker, it is the sequence where Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Penny (Jennifer Connelly) sail on a sailboat. "That scene was, in some ways, the hardest to get because it was largely out of our control. We relied on the wind to make the sequence great, and we had to look for it," he told The Wrap.
In the words of Kosinski, Tom Cruise had to give 100% effort to drive the sailboat, however, despite his abilities, the wind did not allow him to control the ship as the cameras required.
"I think audiences feel that effort when they see the movie. That's why I think people respond to it because it wasn't shot on set. It was a movie where we went out and really tried to capture as much as we could. And you can feel that. when you're watching it," he added.
Tom Cruise aspires to become the first actor to film in space
Tom Cruise plans to travel to the International Space Station to become the first actor to shoot scenes for a movie outside of Earth, confirmed the president of the Universal production company, Donna Langely.
"We are developing a great project with Tom in which he is expected to do just that, go on a rocket to the space station and roll there. We hope that he will become the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside the station," he said. Langely in an interview with the British BBC.
It was Tom Cruise himself who had the idea and is working on it with director Doug Liman, having already worked on films such as Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and American Made (2017), according to the executive.
"During the pandemic (Cruise) asked to do a Zoom call with us. He came on the call and said, guys, I have this great project," Langely described.
