Top Gun : Maverick was the long-awaited return of one of the biggest blockbusters in movie history, and the box office did not disappoint . The film was full of incredible aerial action , but not all the action was in the skies. One particular scene in the film with Jennifer Connelly was reshot at Cruise’s insistence to make it more exciting, and it makes a lot of sense.
Jennifer Connelly plays Penny in the Top Gun: Maverick cast , a former love of Tom Cruise ’s Pete Mitchell who reconnects with the pilot when he returns as an instructor at the Top Gun school. Their scenes in the film are certainly not the most exciting. They’re the romantic subplot.
However, Connelly tells Vanity Fair that the first version of one scene with them, where the characters go sailing together, was killed off by Cruise because it was “boring.” Connelly explained..
. Originally, we shot a sailing scene in San Diego. It was a beautiful, beautiful boat.
We saw dolphins. It was great. We did the scene, we’re sitting out there, and Tom goes, ‘No, this is boring.
’ I was like, ‘Oh.’ [Laughs] He was like, ‘It’s not fast enough. It’s not cool enough.
It’s not fast enough. I want Penny to be like, really strong’ and he was right. The sailing scene has Connelly’s character Penny in control of the boat as she and Maverick spend a day on the water.
However, Cruise didn’t like the fact that the seas were calm. He felt it didn’t show enough that Penny was a capable sailor. To t.
