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The movie Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to Top Gun, draws from the inspiration of the latter. The sequel, just like the earlier one, featured a scene that had the cast running and playing sports without their shirts on. The movie director, John Kosinski, had said at one point that his plan for the scene led to an emotional breakdown among the cast.
The scene in the original Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott, which had the cast playing volleyball, has been reported to be one of the best scenes in the movie based on its popularity for many years. For the director, the scene went as he had planned it to be. Speaking via Cinemablend, he said, โI didnโt have a vision of what I was doing other than doing soft core porn. I knew I had to show off all the guys, but I didnโt have a point of view, so I just shot the sหหห out of it.โ
Healthy competition among Top Gun cast
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While shooting the scene, the cast competed playfully to see whose image appeared better. In fact, actor Van Kilmer pointed out that co-star Tom Cruise sabotaged his own volleyball scene because he had a better body than Cruise. โI always suspected Tom Cruise might have cooked my volleyball close-ups. If you notice, I donโt have anyโฆ. They got cooked. That means they were over- or underdeveloped. And there werenโt any, and they couldnโt go back. I think Tom went in there, a little payolaโฆ because I looked good,โ he said to USA Today.
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Fans clamored for Top Gun Maverickโs to have a shirtless scene
John Kosinski became the director for Maverick, and he thought that the sequel also needed a shirtless scene so as to conform with the earlier version, and he was also a fan of the original Top Gun. โWhen people found out I was working on Top Gun, that was usually their first question, โIs there going to be a shirtless, oily, volleyball scene?โ And the answer that everyone wanted me to say was: yes. So I knew it was kind of a requirement and how disappointed people would be if it wasnโt in there.”
“So then the thing was like: How do we work it into our story? He told Esquire. โSo writer Ehren Kruger coined the term โdog fight football,โ offense and defense at the same time which seemed like a great concept,โ he continued. In order to make the scene perfect, the cast put in the work of building their body to suit the scene. However, when the director told them his plan for the scene, they broke down emotionally.
A cast member, John Hamm, Was Happy He Didnโt Partake In The Scene
โOriginally, I conceived the scene as shirts versus skins. And I got there and I started dividing them up, you know, shirt, skin, shirt, skins. And everyone who I told was a shirt started having an emotional breakdown. One of the actors came up to me and said โIโve been working out for six months! Please, please donโt make me put on the t-shirt. So I told them, ‘You know what? Everyoneโs on the skins!’ It doesnโt matter.โ
Actor John Hamm didnโt partake in the scene because after seeing the rigors the cast had to undergo, he was quite happy he didnโt choose to participate. In an interview with Esquire, he said, โI was very, very happy to leave the shirtless parts to the younger generation.โ
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