Hamm will play Vice Admiral Cyclone in Top Gun: Maverick - not a character who was in the original Top Gun movie. Although few specifics on Hamm’s role have been released, the 3-star admiral role will be consistent with the ideals of the Navy apparently, the Defense Department has even reviewed the script. In the Top Gun: Maverick trailer, the narrator - Cruise’s character Maverick - says: “What he has to teach you may very well mean the difference between life and death.” Who was Jon Hamm cast as in the action sequel? In the 2021 sequel, Maverick is assigned to train a squad of Top Gun graduates for a dangerous special mission - which may require the ultimate sacrifice. In Top Gun 2, Cruise will reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, one of the Navy’s top aviators and test pilots. “It’s everything you hope it’s going to be and everything I hoped it was going to be,” Hamm revealed. He was impressed - and thinks you will be, too. Top Gun: Maverick arrives in theaters on June 26, 2020.Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun | Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Imagesĭuring a recent interview on the Today show, Top Gun: Maverick star Hamm shared that he has seen a cut of the $150+ million dollar production. McGillis, who also starred in 1985’s Witness and 1988’s The Accused, last appeared on screen in the 2018 indie thriller Maternal Secrets. “I’m not racing to the theater and I’m not racing away from the theater,” McGillis said of her desire to see the film. Still, McGillis doesn’t harbor any ill will toward Connelly, telling ET that she is “glad for her.” She also doesn’t appear to be too upset about the film itself either, and frankly, she’s doesn’t really seem to have any feelings toward it at all. McGillis’ effective replacement in the film as Cruise’s new love interest is actress Jennifer Connelly, who at 48, is 14 years McGillis’ junior and nine years younger than the 57-year-old Cruise. “And that is not what that whole scene is about.” “I’m old, and I’m fat, and I look age-appropriate for what my age is,” McGillis told the outlet. According to her, the reason why she wasn’t is because she no longer fits the mold of what a love interest should look like in a blockbuster Hollywood movie. McGillis, 62, recently told Entertainment Tonight that, despite being Cruise’s love interest in the first film, she was never even approached about returning for the second. And McGillis thinks she knows why that is. But one major character who is conspicuously absent from the cast list is Kelly McGillis’ Charlie. Tom Cruise is of course back as Maverick, as is Val Kilmer as Iceman.

Despite coming out 34 years after its predecessor, Top Gun: Maverickis still bringing back key members of the original’s cast.

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