The director contradicted the supposed motive revealed by the actress, it should be noted that Meg Ryan, who used to play Goose’s wife, was also not part of the cast< /h2>
This is what the actress looked like in the eighties ( Getty)
The long-awaited sequel to Top Gun (1986) finally hit theaters in 2022; famous star Tom Cruise reprized his iconic role as Pete Mitchell Maverick and other cast members included: Val Kilmer as Tom Iceman, Miles Teller as Bradley B, Glen Powell as Hangmanand Monica Barbaro as Phoenix.
However, in this sequel to the 1980s action film, the important absence of Kelly McGillis was highlighted. , who played Charlotte. It should be noted that Meg Ryan, who used to play Goose’s wife, was also not in the cast.
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According to what McGillis recently explained, the reason they didn’t call her to be Cruise’s character’s romantic interest was her physique, since ultimately, she doesn’t look like the girl in the first one Top Gun.
This is what actress Kelly McGillis looks like today (Photo: AP)
“I’m too old, I’m fat, I look my age and this is not what the film is looking for; I prefer to feel safe in my skin and true to my age than to value other things”
In the same way, the actress who gave life to the instructor of the Top Gun special air unit assured that soon, there will be no actors in Hollywood who look 50 years old.
The criticism of the famous was addressed to how the film industry would be beginning to “discriminate” the actors for getting older. “In reality, it is normal for a woman over sixty years old to have a slightly worn physique and wrinkles on her face. The strange thing is the swollen faces without gestures, petrified, that all resemble each other, “she mentioned.
Kelly McGillis was nominated for the most important awards. She was one of the most desired women of her time. But her stay at the top of it was brief. He hid his true sexuality, suffered from the pressures of fame, had panic attacks, and couldn’t control alcohol. Witness in Danger by Peter Weir with Harrison Ford in the leading role, it spelled her rise to success.
Tom Cruise did return for the sequel (Photo: REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo)
However, he made it clear that new actress Jennifer Connelly will have an “excellent turn in her role.” In this regard, the director Joseph Kosinski defended himself and denied that it had been because of McGillis’s physique, in contrast he mentioned that it was a decision about the film’s narrative.
“Those weren’t stories we were pitching. She didn’t want every story line to always look back. It was important to introduce some new characters,” he explained to Insider.
In this way, the director of films like Tron Legacy (2010) justified the absence of Meg Ryan and McGuillis, who at the time was not the decoration girl of many films, because she is a strong, intelligent woman and the chosen actress was older than the protagonist.A welcome rarity to add more elements of interest to Top Gun of the eighties.
The director said that the apparent exclusion would have been due to issues narratives and valued the appearance of Jennifer Connelly (Photo: REUTERS/Henry Nicholls)
In that sense, Joseph Kosinski also valued Conelly, who plays the daughter of an admiral who had an affair with Maverick, it should be noted that this character had only been mentioned without being shown in the original film:
“Penny Benjamin, a character that we have only heard of but never seen, it was an incredible opportunity to bring the person je from Jennifer Connely to this movie.”