During the production of the film, Cruise actually paid for Glen Powell to earn his pilot’s license after he admired the actor’s swagger as he rode off into the sunset on his P-51 after long days on set.
In good ol’ Tom Cruise fashion, there will be some seriously cool stunt work in Top Gun: Maverick.
Cruise also reportedly armed the cast with an “entire flight regimen” to make sure they could withstand their time at G-force in the sky.