The actor was able to see the film in one of the first viewings with Tom Cruise.
Anthony Edwards was one of the cast members of that 80’s hit called ‘Top Gun’. Now, more than three decades later, the sequel has hit theaters but he, for obvious reasons of the fate of his character, does not appear. That does not mean that he became one of the first fans of the second part.
The 59-year-old Golden Globe winner Edwards gave his stamp of approval to Top Gun: Maverick after seeing an early screening with the lead, Tom Cruise, which he spoke about while at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“If you make the first movie, you’re already too luckyEdwards told ET.I was lucky that Tom called me. He screened it for me in person“. The actor pointed out that his son Bailey, 28, accompanied him at that first screening of the film in New York City. After seeing it, he had nothing but praise for the film.
In the production he directed Tony Scott in the 1980s, Edwards played Lieutenant Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, the best friend of Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. And while the character tragically passed away in the first film, he lives on in the sequel through the character of his now-grown son, Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, whom he plays. Miles Teller. The fact of not appearing in this new story has not dampened his enthusiasm.
“It’s the biggest movie I’m in that I never had to show up for a work day, so that was fun.“
The actor also praised the sequel for living up to its predecessor. “When something is so successful, people have a certain approach to the original“, said. “And ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ does the exact same thing the first time you see it, only moreEdwards explained.As I told Tom, ‘mission accomplished’. They made it. They really did. He put in a lot of work. And he had that feel, he had the tone, he had what people wanted.“.
36 years later, Cruise reprises his role as Maverick, which has many parallels to the actor himself. In the sequel we see the main character still flying as one of the best aviators in the Navy, dodging a rise in rank that would keep him grounded. However, he is assigned another mission: to train a new pool of fighter pilots for his life’s mission, a job that will pit him against ghosts from his past.
Edwards continued to develop his career in all these years. The actor had appeared a couple of years earlier in the crazy comedy ‘The Revenge of the Rookies’. Titles such as ‘The Client’ or ‘Zodiac’ enter his resume. Lately he has been seen in series like ‘Who is Anna?’, but, if there is another job for which Edwards is remembered apart from the Goose from ‘Top Gun’, it is for having played Doctor Mark Greene in ‘ER’ during the first eight seasons of the series.
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