‘We Were All Mini-Toms!’: Miles Teller Says He Survived Tom Cruise’s Training Camp To Get In ‘Killer Shape’ For Top Gun: Maverick
Miles Teller was sent through Tom Cruise Boot Camp for his role in Top Gun: Maverick.
The 35-year-old actor plays Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 blockbuster ‘Top Gun’ and revealed how the Oscar-nominated actor put the entire cast through intensive training to help them prepare for the project help.
“We were all mini-toms making this film. He got us through… I just call it a “Tom Cruise Bootcamp”. We were in killer shape,” he told Total Film magazine.
Boot Camp: Miles Teller was put through Tom Cruise Boot Camp for his role in Top Gun: Maverick. The ‘Only the Brave’ star said: “We were all mini-toms making this movie. He got us through… I just call it a “Tom Cruise Bootcamp”. We were always in killer form’
Almost there: A new poster was shared on Tuesday for the May 25 film
The “Offer” star explained that there was a lot of detail that went into the performance: “For the stunts and stuff that Tom does in movies, it’s usually a very specific type of training.”
“You don’t just go to the gym and lift some weights. We did flight training for three months before we started filming… We were put through the wringer.”
Tom, who will reprise his role as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the film, said the goal is to help his co-stars learn to climb into the cockpit of Boeing F/A-18 Superhornet jets rise.
Put through the wringer: The 35-year-old actor says he and all his co-stars have undergone a special type of training in preparation for the highly anticipated film
The “Mission: Impossible” actor, known for his thorough preparation, said: “I developed a program for the actors and how we might get them into the fighter jets. It was every step of the way.’
The action star has created his own brand of flight school.
“I had to teach them to fly. I had to teach them how to use Gs (G-forces). I had to make them safer on the plane.”
Picture perfect: The Oscar-nominated actor said when he created the role of Maverick in the 1986 film he wanted to make the experience of a fighter pilot as authentic as possible for moviegoers and was determined to replicate it for the sequel, which will be released on May 27th
The screen icon recalled how he wanted the fighter pilot experience to be as authentic as possible in the original Top Gun and was determined to replicate it for the sequel, which will be released on May 27th.
The 59-year-old star recalled, “When I first decided on the first Top Gun, I did so based on the fact that I would be filmed in the F-14 and I would be in the F-14.
“I wanted to give the audience the experience of what it’s like to be a fighter pilot and what this world and its culture is like.”
G Forces: In establishing his own brand of flight school for the sequel, Cruise said, “I had to teach them to fly. I had to teach them how to use Gs (G-forces). I had to make them safer on the plane.