Top Gun: Maverick Pitched Miles Teller to Tom Cruise Using a Photoshopped Mustache


Top Gun: Maverick’ is a big cinematic reunion of actor Tom Cruise and filmmaker

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Joseph Kosinski, who joined forces again after ‘Oblivion’, he also brought in Miles

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Teller, the guy who starts by making a bar full of crowd sing ‘Great Balls of Fire’.

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Miles Teller worked with Kosinski in ‘Only the Brave’, which was the 48-year-old

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filmmaker’s first casting selection while the latter was developing a storyline for

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He featured in the film as Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s radar intercept officer Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.

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The filmmaker came up with the idea of highlighting Rooster and Maverick’s

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detailed dynamic in the movie, and said that the element played a crucial part in

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helping Tom Cruise to decide that it was time for a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster hit ‘Top Gun’.

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