The sequel pays homage to the beach volleyball match in the original, though you won’t see Hamm with the youngsters.
Top Gun: Maverick has finally arrived 36 years after Tom Cruise crossed the danger zone in 1986 with Top Gun. With an entire generation (or two) between movies, Maverick functions as both a sequel and a minor relaunch with a couple of key moments recast for new viewers.
What is the most obvious example? In Top Gun: Maverick there is an homage to the famous beach volleyball scene from the original film (to the music of ‘Playing With the Boys’ by Kenny Loggins) with a football scene with the new stars Jay Ellis, Glen Powell and Danny Ramirez without a shirt to fulfill the role they had Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.
However, there was one actor who was relieved not to have to be a part of this provocative and slightly homoerotic moment: Jon Ham, who plays Admiral Beau ‘Cyclone’ Simpson. “I am very, very happy that we left the shirtless parts to the new generationsHamm acknowledged in a recent interview on Esquire.
He also confessed to feeling happy for not having to go through the arduous pilot training what other actors had to do.
Hamm reflected on the different sensitivity in both movies: while the new one is still set in a military world, it seems more realistic. For example, command is a guy in a shirt instead of a sergeant yelling in your face.
Of course, it’s still a popcorn action movie about some trigger-happy drivers, but also considers that there are more emotions than in the original. “The world is maturing… I think we’ve seen a lot less macho interactions in this movie,” he explained. “There are women pilots. Jennifer Connelly’s character has her own thing and draws Maverick’s attention a lot... I think there are a lot more nuances, because we are in a more nuanced world. I mean we’re not in the year 1986 anymore. Evidently the culture has changed, as it should… We’re moving towards some goal,” he concluded.
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