Miles Teller, Glen Powell and More ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Stars Detail How They Prepped for Beach Scene: ‘Montages Are Forever’

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Their hard work paid off. As the internet thirsts over Miles Teller, Glen Powell and more Top Gun: Maverick stars, Us Weekly is breaking down everything that went into that quickly iconic beach scene.The Top Gun sequel follows Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) training a new generation of pilots, including his late friend Goose’s son, Rooster (Teller), for a special mission.

The film not only made box office history when it debuted in May 2022 but took over social media with fans gawking over a scene of Teller, Powell, Jay Ellis, Greg “Tarzan” Davis and their costars playing football on the beach sans shirts.“Montages are Forever,” Powell captioned a behind-the-scenes video — set to “Man To Make Me Sweat” by Leslie Powell — of the men pumping themselves up.The Scream Queens alum previously revealed that Cruise had the group reshoot the now-infamous scene.“It was one of the first things we filmed.

That was a great move, because you spend all this time getting into shape and it can be hard to maintain while you’re on set working these long shooting days,” Powell told Men’s Journal. “The tough thing was that we didn’t realize the filming demands of the montage, which was a lot of camera angles and long lenses.

So after we’d filmed for an entire day on the beach with Tom, playing our hardest and looking our best, we thought we were done and went out that night to celebrate — drinking and eating wings and tater tots.