“Top Gun Maverick” is broadcast this evening on 6ter, the opportunity to ask the following question: did Tom Cruise and his partners lease the hunting planes in the film themselves?
It is of public notoriety, Tom Cruise is not afraid of anything and does not hesitate to ensure his most perilous waterfalls himself. We can clearly see it in the last mission impossible, at the moment in theaters.
Before giving us cold sweats while staying hung on the wing of an airplane in The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise injected us with a good dose of adrenaline in Top Gun Maverick in 2022. True to his reputation, the actor refused to have recourse to digital effects for aerial scenes.
Is there a pilot on the plane?
Are the actor and his partners really in charge of F-18 super Hornet fighter planes in the continuation of the 1986 cult film? Tom Cruise trained at the Miramar military base with the other actors in the film, but they do not manage the devices themselves. (For 5 months, the actors got used to the fundamental principles of flight and force G, an acceleration unit corresponding to the acceleration of gravity).
The protagonists of the feature film underwent intensive training with experienced pilots but the American army did not allow the actors to be in charge. Indeed, these ultra -perfected planes cost around $ 70 million, all paid by the taxpayer of the country of Uncle Sam.
Paramount Tom Cruise undergoes strength G
Film, play and pilot (for false)
It was therefore out of the question that soldiers risk the lives of comedians, but also the integrity of overpriced devices. The actors are therefore really present in the planes but it is not they who manage.
On the other hand, they had to take the director's place in the cockpit, play their dialogues and film in full flight (so they had to learn to film and frame). All this makes the scenes of a striking authenticity, the actors really undergoing violent accelerations and mind -blowing acrobatics.
In addition, Navy pilots really piloting the planes at the time of the shooting also had to be trained.
“We have trained actors so that they can fly and play in real F/A -18. And, to do this, we took the best hunting pilots in the American Navy world and we taught them the film techniques – the pilot and the actor had to work in a team. It is the sophistication of the air sequences. No one has ever done, never”said Tom Cruise.
