Tom Cruise reportedly banned alcohol on the set of the new Top Gun movie, which is released this month. The film is tipped as one of Hollywood’s biggest films of the year, the Top Gun sequel has been more than 36 years in the making.
Tom Cruise banned alcoholic drinks whilst on all locations despite the hype and he set no alcoholic celebrations to be had as protagonist during filming. He reportedly kept the cast and crew in ship shape with “rigorous schedules”, co-star Miles Teller spoke about the rules.
He said: “There were days after a tough shoot that I could have really used a couple of beers, but you just don’t want to be flying at those speeds hungover.”
A source also added: “On most sets, the cast and crew socialise and go drinking but on Top Gun, they were told to keep partying at a minimum.”
Actor Miles Teller revealed that he had a night off from the rules due to a wedding. He noted: “The next day I had flight training in 100C heat. That was rough.”
Tom Cruise, who was the lead in the franchise’s original film, was in charge of the movie’s production visuals and was adamant he wanted to make the on-screen fighter pilot scenes as “authentic” as can be.
The Hollywood star made actors take fighter pilot training alongside technical lessons about how to film, light and edit the footage filmed from inside their cockpits. Tom also didn’t let producers use special effects, instead leaving the experience up to the viewers themselves. He said that fans would see that the “G-force is real” and “not computer generated”, but made by actors.
Cruise branded the aerial footage as “beautiful” and called the film a “love letter to aviation”. He also said that by putting the actors through flight training, filmmakers ensured that they could deal with the pressure of filming: “I told them it’s daunting and if you’re not sweating bullets, you should not be on this film.”
Greg Tarzan Davis co-star of Cruise said that “once they started the jet” he was “sick immediately” but “powered through it”.
