Kelly McGillis has revealed she was not invited back to appear opposite Tom Cruise in Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick.
Top Gun featured actress Kelly McGillis in the role of Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, an astrophysicist and civilian Top Gun instructor who was also the love interest to Tom Cruise’s Pete Mitchell. While some hoped to see her reprise her role in Top Gun: Maverick, Kelly McGillis told Entertainment Tonight that she was not invited back for the Tom Cruise sequel.
When asked if anyone reached out to hear about returning for Top Gun: Maverick, Kelly McGillis stated she had no been asked back and pointed to her age and weight as a likely reason for her exclusion from the sequel:
“Oh my god, no. They did not and nor do I think they would ever. I mean, I’m old and I’m fat and I look age-appropriate for what my age is, and that is not what that whole scene is about. I’d much rather feel absolutely secure in my skin and who and what I am at my age, as opposed to placing a value on all that other stuff.”
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Top Gun: Maverick follows Tom Cruise’s Pete Mitchell guiding a new generation of pilots, including a young man named Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, who died tragically in the first film.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski from a script written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Ashley Edward Miller, and Zack Stentz, Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris.
Top Gun: Maverick will be released in theaters on June 26, 2020.
Source: Entertainment Tonight
