And Tom Cruise didn’t just stop at insisting that there be actually flying in Top Gun: Maverick and even getting into a cockpit himself.
He also had his fellow actors playing pilots go through flight training, which included a “grueling” process that prepared them for the G-force they’d experience while in the air. It wouldn’t have been complicated to get already-trained pilots to operate those aircraft, but Cruise was insistent that his co-stars develop the same need for speed that he and his character have.