Washington D.C: Tom Cruise is no stranger to performing his own stunts whenever the opportunity arises. Living up to his daredevil reputation, he was seen pulling some serious G's in a fighter jet's cockpit for his upcoming Top Gun sequel.
A recently released 3-minute long promotional clip on YouTube shows Tom flying a fighter jet with 6 cameras capturing his strained expressions while he fights against the G forces to stay conscious.
The 57-year-old Hollywood star justified putting his physical well-being in peril instead of letting CGI do the job by saying that "you can't act that, the distortion in the face. They're pulling 7 1/2 , 8 G's. That's 1,600 pounds of force".
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One of the actors from the movie, Danny Ramirez pops up around three-quarters of the way into the video trying his best not to throw up as he looks out of the aircraft's canopy.
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Co-star Milles Teller who plays the character of Rooster said, "Putting us up in these jets, it's very serious. That's why everybody thought it would be impossible. I think when Tom hears that something's impossible or it can't be done, that's when he gets to work."
Top Gun: Maverick, that has come 34 years after its predecessor, is due to be released in June 2020.
Here Cruise is a veteran test pilot who goes by the name Pete Maverick Mitchell. He is assigned the job of training a group of graduates from the USAF Top Gun program for a highly specialised and risky mission.
