‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star Danny Ramirez talks Tom Cruise as a 'mentor' and the film's 'unique' training

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"Top Gun: Maverick" star Danny Ramirez is detailing what it was like working with Tom Cruise and reflecting on the "unique" training that he went through in order to prepare for his role as Lieutenant Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia.  "It has been one of the most amazing experiences," Ramirez told Fox News Digital. "It feels like we went to get our master's degree and our doctorates." Ramirez highlighted the impact Cruise has on moviegoers and how he's parlayed that into a "mentor" role to the actors he works alongside of.  "I think this is why his movies are so well received," Ramirez said. "He has the audience in mind.

It is a responsibility that like people are giving two hours of their time. And every year he has a movie that millions of people go to watch.

And so that responsibility of the sheer amount of hours that people are giving to be taking on this adventure, he passed that down and then since then has been a mentor." "Top Gun: Maverick" star Danny Ramirez is detailing what it was like working with Tom Cruise.  ( Samir Hussein/WireImage) Of Cruise guiding Ramirez, the actor said: "Whenever I have had a project that I'm developing, he gives me notes and like he replies faster than Jay [Ellis] or Glen [Powell] do. "His notes come in like an hour later, he is like, ‘Read the whole thing.