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Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Co-Star Anthony Edwards Reacts To Maverick: “It’s The Biggest Movie That I’m In That I Never Had To Show Up For A Day Of Work”

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Top Gun actor Anthony Edwards said watching the sequel Top Gun: Maverick “felt like seeing it the first time, only more.”

Edwards, 59, starred in the 1986 original movie as Lt. Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw, BFF and radar intercept officer to Tom Cruise’s Navy aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. Although his character died in the first film, his legacy plays a big part in the follow-up’s narrative and his spirit lives on through his son, Lt Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller).  

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight last week at the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of Jennifer Lopez’s Netflix documentary Halftime, Edwards said Cruise organised an early screening of Top Gun: Maverick for him.

“If you do the first movie, you’re lucky enough,” Edwards told ET. “I was lucky enough that Tom called me. He screened it for me in person.”

Edwards saw the movie with his son Bailey, 28, at the Dolby Screening Room in New York City, which had the “best sound ever.”  He added, “It’s the biggest movie that I’m in that I never had to show up for a day of work, so it was fun.”

Edwards, who’s also best known as Dr Mark Greene in the long-running medical drama ER, was in awe of the sequel which has so far earned more than US$747 million (S$1.03 bil) worldwide.

When something's that successful, people had a certain feeling in the original one,” he said. “And [Top Gun: Maverick] does exactly what it felt like seeing it the first time, only more. As I said to Tom, ‘Mission accomplished.' They did it. They really did, though. It’s a lot of work that went into that. But it had the feel, it had the tone, it had what people wanted."

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