Joseph Kosinski Says Glen Powell Hurt Himself by Going ‘110 Percent’ in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Beach Football Scene - Yahoo Entertainment

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“Top Gun: Maverick” was overwhelmingly praised for its quality to bring caller versions of moments and tropes from the archetypal “Top Gun” into the 21st century. One of the champion examples is simply a country wherever Tom Cruise leads his radical of pilots successful a co-ed crippled of pickup shot connected the beach. The country was an evident homage to the infamously campy Kenny Loggins-scored volleyball country from the archetypal film, and rapidly became a instrumentality favourite moment.

Speaking to IndieWire connected the reddish carpet of the Critics Choice Awards, “Top Gun: Maverick” manager Joseph Kosinski reflected connected the acquisition of shooting the shot scene, which helium called 1 of his astir memorable days connected set.

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“One that I get asked astir a lot, which was a precise memorable day, was erstwhile we changeable the formation shot scene,” Kosinski said. “The actors were successful a precise benignant of stressed retired state, they’d each been moving truthful hard to get acceptable for that scene. They were nether the pressure, the value of the archetypal country being truthful iconic. I retrieve Glen went retired 110 percent connected the archetypal play and wounded himself, but helium was capable to retrieve rapidly and we were capable to get a large mentation of it.”

Kosinski has ne'er tried to fell the unit that helium felt astir making a sequel to an iconic movie that fans had been waiting astir 40 years for. But successful an interview with IndieWire anterior to the film’s release, Kosinski expressed alleviation astir the information that fans of the archetypal movie were conscionable arsenic enthusiastic astir his movie arsenic those who were unfamiliar with the original.

“We did a small spot of assemblage testing,” helium said. “What was a astonishment to america was, whether oregon not you had seen the archetypal film, radical were standing the movie precisely the same. There was nary quality betwixt ‘Top Gun’ fans and non-‘Top Gun’ fans. I could person ne'er anticipated that, but I bash deliberation radical could perchance get much retired of it if they’ve seen the archetypal film. But radical look to bask it either way.”

Watch IndieWire’s reddish carpet interrogation with Kosinski below.

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