the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program).
They’re at a different level of experience than in the first film."
“The experience is thrilling but very physically grueling,” Kosinski says.
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They all had to go through months of aerial training.
We put them through a training course that Tom actually designed himself.
So he knew that they would need to kind of work up to that level.
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Occasionally it made some of the actors sick and that even happens to experienced fighter pilots."
“There’s no crew up there,” he adds.
“I’m not up there with him, there’s no cinematographer, no hair and makeup.
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They are responsible for every aspect of the filmmaking process when they’re up in those airplanes.”
“It was one of the most extreme aerial sequences that we could come up with.
Tom got to fulfill every kind of aviation dream that he had.”
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How the character fits into the new story isn’t something Kosinski wants to yet reveal.
Top Gun: Maverickwill be released June 26, 2020.
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