Cruise defended his rant saying: “There was a lot at stake at that point. But it wasn’t my entire crew. I had the crew leave the set, and it was just select people.”
In the leaked 3-minute video, Tom can be heard reprimanding crew members for not keeping with on-set COVID-19 safety protocols.
“If I see you do it again, you’re f—ing gone,” the actor was heard shouting, “And if anyone in this crew does it, that’s it – and you, too, and you, too. And you, don’t you ever f—ing do it again.”
The pandemic had stalled most productions for months, leaving thousands of crew members out of work and out of luck. Cruise said about the incident, “For the whole crew to know that we’d started rolling on a movie was just a huge relief. It was very emotional, I gotta tell you.” Suffice it to say, the set was never shut down again for lack of safety protocol.
Top Gun sequel – where did everyone go?
In the long-anticipated sequel about the ndege zankhondo and their pilots and Top Gun gurus, Maverick must confront his past while training a new squad of graduates for a dangerous mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice. But it appears that Tom is just about the only real actor returning to his character’s role.
Remember Val Kilmer as the Iceman? He was not slated to return in the sequel because he was in a battle of his own with throat cancer. So nobody asked him. But Kilmer wanted to be in the movie. According to Val, he went to Tom Cruise and the producers and begged… and he won them over.
