‘Top Gun: Maverick’ star Jennifer Connelly recalls flying with Tom Cruise: ‘He’s such a good pilot’
foxnews.comJennifer Connelly is facing her flying fears. In a recent interview with Good Morning America, the actress, 51, admitted that flying isn't her "favorite" thing to do despite the movie being about airplanes.
She shared that her co-star, Tom Cruise, took her up in a World War II-era plane during their time filming "Top Gun: Maverick." "It was an extraordinary experience," Connelly said. "It was a P-51, which is a World War II plane, and it was pretty extraordinary.
We were flying, skimming the top of the mountains and there was a jet right off our wing that was filming us, so it was definitely flying unlike any flying I’ve done before." Jennifer Connelly shares her flying experience with Tom Cruise during filming "Top Gun: Maverick." (Getty Images) When asked if she was nervous to get in the plane with Cruise, she responded, "He’s such a good pilot and he’s so meticulous in absolutely everything that he does, so it was kind of therapeutic for me." She continued: "As someone who doesn’t really love to fly to do that kind of flying with someone like him I could just enjoy it." Connelly stars as Cruise’s love interest in the recently released film.
She shares in the interview that before filming, she had never met the actor or starred with him in a movie. Greg Tarzan Davis, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly attend the screening of "Top Gun: Maverick" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images) "He’s just a great actor, so he makes it just a joy working with him," Connelly said as she described her character’s role in the movie.
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