Watch Tom Cruise Land Helicopter at 'Top Gun: Maverick' Premiere

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Tom Cruise made an epic landing onto the red carpet at the  world premiere in San Diego Wednesday. The movie star arrived at the USS Midway Museum via a helicopter — which he was fittingly the pilot of.Cruise stepped out of the chopper, which read «Tom Cruise. ,» on it and approached the droves of waiting photographers, reporters and fans, all itching to see the actor make his return as Lt.

Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, 36 years later.While Cruise wasn't wearing Maverick's signature flight suit, he did dress for the occasion, sporting a dark gray suit and tie and of course, a pair of aviator sunglasses.ET's Nischelle Turner was speaking with Cruise's co-star, Jon Hamm, who plays Vice in the film, when Cruise made his magnificent entrance.«I'm just glad he's going through the back of my shot, so that's perfect for me,» Hamm joked. «You just gotta watch in awe.»«You don't get better than that» the  alum added.Tom Cruise arriving to the #TopGunMaverick premiere in a helicopter that he piloted himself!

pic.twitter.com/gN0npZhdgwThe long-awaited follow-up to 1986's  hits theaters May 27, and it's a film Hamm said fans of the franchise are going to want to see in theaters.«This is a movie that you want to see in theaters,» Hamm shared. «It feels like a welcome back to the theaters, after a couple years of pause that we were all on.

I think when people start seeing this in the theaters, and they see it big and loud, and they understand what kind of experience it is, they're gonna forget about the last two years and they're gonna start going back to theaters.»ET also spoke to Jennifer Connelly, who stars opposite Cruise as Penny Benjamin, about what she's learned from working with him on the film.«Just witnessing it in person.