Whenever Tom Cruise is in an action movie, you can be sure Cruise is doing those stunts. In Top Gun: Maverick Cruise and the rest of the cast were on those planes. But it turns out that flying jets weren’t the only activity that required the actors to work a little to bring it to life on screen. Miles Teller learned to play “Great Balls of Fire” on the piano. Check out Teller’s full comments in the video above.
Among the various references to the original best gun find in Top Gun: Maverick This is one of the first scenes to include Miles Teller’s Rooster, son of Maverick’s friend Goose, playing Jerry Lee Lewis hit “Great Balls of Fire” on the piano in a bar, as did Maverick and Goose at the time. . Gossipify’s Sean O’Connell spoke to Teller, revealing that he learned to play the song himself, although it turned out to be a little more difficult than he initially thought. The cashier explained …
I said ‘I played the piano when I was younger. I work a little more. I don’t need duplicates. I’ll play and sing this live. But then you realize it’s a pretty tough song and he sings pretty loud.
While there are many things a professional actor should be good at, there are probably many that have never touched a piano in their life. In this case, it would have been much easier to get someone else to play the piano, but Miles Teller thought he could play well enough to do the scene himself.
And it turns out he was right, even though it looks like it might be more work than he was willing to do well. Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the greats of rock and roll and seems to have put his not inconsiderable talent at the service of “Great Balls of Fire”. It’s not an easy song to play, but Teller makes it sound easy and he’s not a bad singer either.
Learning to play “Great Balls of Fire” on the piano could have been a bit of a struggle, although hopefully it wasn’t as difficult as the boot camp that Top Gun: Maverick The cast simply moved on to be able to fly fighter jets. Obviously no one was supposed to fly, but being able to do it in the cockpit was something untrained people probably couldn’t do with certainty.
The time and work spent flying and playing the piano seem to have paid off. Top Gun: Maverick it is a great success one of the largest since before the pandemic.
Source: Cinemablend
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