‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Star Monica Barbaro on the Rigors of Filming in Planes: ‘Tom Created the Perfect Training Program’
24.05.2022 - 21:53
/ thewrap.com
“Top Gun: Maverick” is not your father’s “Top Gun.”The new movie, released a whopping 36 years after the original film, takes Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and puts him in an unexpected scenario – training Top Gun graduates for a clandestine mission. And, unlike the original film, some of those graduates are women! The most prominent female recruit is Lieutenant Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, played wonderfully by Monica Barbaro. Phoenix is tough and flinty; she’s been around the rest of these bozos for a while, and knows Rooster (Miles Teller), a young recruit with ties to Maverick’s past, quite well.
She’s also partners with Bob (Lewis Pullman), an unassuming weapons system officer.TheWrap spoke to Barbaro about her relationship with the original film, what it was like in the actual planes and how nobody could resist eating the famous coconut cake Tom Cruise sends for Christmas, even though everybody knew that they were going to be re-filming the shirtless football scene. (The cake really is that good.)What was your relationship with the original “Top Gun?”I saw it in college and thought it was a great movie. It’s such a time capsule of the ‘80s.
And like, you know, just so brilliant. Tony Scott just has such a great — I love the way he loves messiness and includes it in the edit. And it’s just a super fun movie.
I knew it as a classic. I never envisioned ever being getting to be a part of it as a sequel in any capacity.What was your reaction when you got cast what was your reaction when they said you’re going to be in the actual planes? I imagine those two very different emotional responses.Well, interestingly, [director] Joe [Kosinski] told me before I got the part that we would be flying in F-18s. He was like,
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