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Tom Cruise Says He Would Never Have Made 'Top Gun: Maverick' If This One Thing Hadn’t Happened · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Tom Cruise is set
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Speaker 1: to fly once again in the upcoming Top Gun Maverick,
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Speaker 1: the sequel to his hit from nineteen eighties six. And
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Speaker 1: when you think of the original Top Gun, Tom is
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Speaker 1: clearly the first actor that comes to mind, but the
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Speaker 1: second is Val Kilmer, who played his nemesis term partner
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Speaker 1: Tom Kazanski. And even though Val unfortunately lost the ability
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Speaker 1: to speak due to a health battle in it was
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Speaker 1: Tom himself who insisted there was no sequel without thou.
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Speaker 1: Producer Jerry Bruckhamer tells people Tom said, we have to
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Speaker 1: have him back. Tom was the driving force. We all
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Speaker 1: wanted him. But Tom was adamant that if he's gonna
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Speaker 1: make another Top Gun, Val had to be in it.
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Speaker 1: He's such a fine actor and such a good individual.
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Speaker 1: He goes on to say, we had such a good
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Speaker 1: time on the first one and wanted to bring some
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Speaker 1: of the gang back together again. It was really an
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Speaker 1: emotional experience for all of us. It was a long
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Speaker 1: time getting there, but we did. Top Gun Maverick was
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Speaker 1: actually just pushed back four months. It will hit theaters MAO.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood