10 Unusual Demands Made By Actors On Recent Movies

While his fellow cast-mates probably weren't over the moon about the prospect of putting their bodies through utter hell for the sake of bringing some realism to the long-awaited follow-up to 1986's Top Gun, Tom Cruise's need for his co-stars to feel the genuine speed undoubtedly paved the way for arguably the greatest legacy sequel to date.

Designing his very own "all-encompassing aviation training for all the actors”, according to "Phoenix" actor Monica Barbaro, producer Jerry Bruckheimer would also note in a behind-the-scenes look at Top Gun: Maverick that the stars were put "through three months of gruelling training”, with everything from being aboard jets at high-speed to a “challenging” underwater programme being a part of the process.

This has been a long time coming. #TopGun pic.twitter.com/qlaXZRIPNt— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) April 18, 2022

The filmmaker's commitment to throwing the likes of Miles Teller and gang into the jet-fuelled reality of the situation no doubt stemmed from Cruise's initial demand when agreeing to return to the role of "Maverick". In short, as Cruise would reveal to Empire later down the road, after years of wondering how in the hell this sequel could even be achieved, the star told Bruckheimer, "'I'll do it if...' meaning, I'm not going to do the CGI stuff.'"

In the end, Cruise and co. undoubtedly proved there's still life in the practical side of big screen moviemaking yet, with Maverick now sitting as the star's most successful box office endeavour to date.