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“Top Gun” star Tom Skerritt is sharing his thoughts on the movie’s sequel and reflecting on the original 1986 film.
Skerritt, who starred as Commander Mike “Viper” Metcalf in the original, opened up about what made “Top Gun” iconic during a recent interview with Fox News Digital.
“The music had a lot to do with it by the way,” he said. “But the screenplay itself, which I’ve always honored as being the whole reason for a good show, and you just write the work … and do the job you have good material for the rest of us to work with. And I really believed in that screenplay.”
Skerritt starred in the film alongside a young Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer and others such as Kelly McGillis.
Tom Skerritt starred in the original “Top Gun” as Cdr. Mike “Viper” Metcalf.
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Tom Cruise as Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Anthony Edwards as Lt. Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Michael Ironside as Lt. Cdr. Dick “Jester” Wetherly and Tom Skerritt as Cdr. Mike “Viper” Metcalf in the film “Top Gun.”
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“Everybody was having a good time on this. We all knew, or maybe I just sensed it, that this was going to be a very successful film.”
As for working with the 25-year-old Cruise, Skerritt told Fox News Digital that he met the actor while still in talks with Tony Scott, the director, and the producers.
“He was clearly a nice young man, 25, aware that he was going to rise with this film. He didn’t say that, but I assumed that by discussion we had. He knew he was going to rise with “Top Gun.”
“Everybody was having a good time on this. We all knew, or maybe I just sensed it, that this was going to be a very successful film.”
When it comes to the sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” Skerritt explained to Fox News Digital: “I think it’s going to be a lot of aeronautical engineering on…
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