How are the take-offs going in real life? Did “Top Gun” really create vocations? What is a “call sign”? To celebrate the release of the sequel, we went to the aircraft carrier to answer these questions. And look for Tom Cruise.
Top Gun, is that really just fiction? As the sequel to the movie that made Tom Cruise a star hits our screens, we went to check on a real aircraft carrier: the Charles de Gaulle. A veritable small town on the water, capable of accommodating nearly two thousand people, and which we have surveyed up and down, to discover its various professions, meet pilots… and look for Maverick.
36 years after the release of the first opus, signed by the late Tony Scott, Joseph Kosinski takes control of this sequel entitled Top Gun Maverick. Still embodied by Tom Cruise, the hero returns to service and plays instructors for a new generation of pilots. Including Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller), son of his ex-winger Goose (Anthony Edwards) who died tragically.
While Tom Cruise highlights the training that he and his partners have followed, to be able to shoot on board fighter planes in flight, we asked the pilots about their passion, their daily life and their relationship to Top Gun. While having attended takeoffs (or catapults) and landings.
Failing to be on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Maverick will be in French cinemas on May 25, after a detour noticed by the Croisette, since Tom Cruise made his big comeback at the Cannes Film Festival after 30 years of absence. For the occasion, it was more than a red carpet that was rolled out on the steps, as the actor gave a masterclass before French patrol planes flew above the palace during the rise of the steps.
Interview by Maximilien Pierrette on May 3, 2022 – Frame and editing: Constance Mathews – Thanks to the French Navy
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