Glen Powell and Jay Ellis detail their bond with Top Gun: Maverick co-star Tom Cruise, exclusively telling E! News at the 2023 Golden Globes that he was a mentor to them.
For Glen Powell and Jay Ellis, working with Tom Cruise was like being on a cloud nine.
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The actors discussed the relationship they formed with the action hero while they were filming Tom Gun: Maverick. Additionally, they got to know a new side of Tom, including information about the actor that may surprise fans, as they exclusively revealed to E! News at the 2023 Golden Globes. (Here are additional celebrities from the Jan. 10 awards ceremony.)
On the red carpet, Jay remarked to Laverne Cox, “He’s truly got a wonderful sense of humor.” “I doubt that most people would anticipate that,”
Jay said working with Tom, 60, was “everything you would think,” and he grew to be a friend and mentor.
And Glen couldn’t agree more.
“Doesn’t get any better than Tom,” he said. “He’s as cool as it gets.”
In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom—who was nominated at the 80th annual Golden Globes for his performance in the blockbuster—reprises his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell from the 1986 film. To prepare the 2022 sequel’s cast members for the high-flying adventure film, Jay revealed to E! News last May that the Jerry Maguire star took them on a “Tom Cruise Bootcamp.”
“We’re flying all these crazy maneuvers with him every single day,” he recalled. “It was just this crazy experience.”
The cast also swam with the coach of the U.S. Open Water swim team and attended “culture trips” to learn about the everyday lives of pilots.
“It was just so much information,” Jay continued, “but it was also so well thought out and planned where it never felt like you were just getting hit with a ton of stuff. It was just these little incremental steps that you were taking, and then all of a sudden, we were all like, ‘Yeah, we pilots.'”
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