Top Gun: Maverick opted for a Tom Cruise immune to the passage of time and owner of the vigor that made him the seducer of Hollywood since the eighties, the result was a victory for both parties. The film became the highest-grossing for the actor, who already has in his repertoire the millionaire franchises of Mission: Impossible or Jack Reacher. Figures are not everything, the film ensured the actor’s return to the Cannes Film Festival, where he arrived piloting his helicopter, and where he was awarded the Palme d’Or, which he received after proclaiming a nostalgic speech in which he stood up as a faithful defender of cinema in theaters. But the sequel to the 1986 classic not only revived the glow of a superstar but also opened the doors to a talented and up-and-coming cast, led by the veteran Miles Teller.

It took 36 years to see veteran Pete Mitchell, aka Maverick, in action again. A new generation of military pilots debuted alongside him, played by Jay Ellis, Glen Powell, Danny Ramírez, Greg Tarzan Davis, and, of course, Miles Teller, who is causing a deafening fury on social networks as a result of their artistic talent and their memorable action sequences, not forgetting that viral American football scene in which they appear shirtless, on the beach and showing off their excellent physical condition.

Miles Teller is probably the best known of the young cast. His debut is due to none other than Nicole Kidman -ex-wife of Tom Cruise-, she chose him for a supporting role in Rabbit Hole. He made a name for himself in the industry thanks to his appearances in Spectacular Now, the Divergent series, and his acclaimed performance in Whiplash, nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. In 2019, he married model Keleigh Sperry, although their relationship began in 2013.

In Top Gun: Maverick, he plays a resentful Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw, the son of the late Goose, Mitchell’s co-pilot 30 years ago. His role led him to take risks, one of them when he was filming a scene aboard an F-18 fighter. “You head down and at the last second you pull away, and it’s hard on the driver. It’s something they train all the time, but it was the first time we did a maneuver like that, and I stopped performing completely. I looked at the ground and thought this was not going to end well for me,” the 35-year-old actor told Lad Bible.

Glen Powell is on the hunt for cautious Lt. Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin, another of Maverick’s mission contenders. His confident face seems familiar to you from his participation in Spy Kids 3-D, although his popularity came in 2015 with the series Scream Queens and the movies Hidden Figures and We all want something. The native of Texas grabbed the headlines in 2016 for his courtship with Nina Dobrev; However, their relationship did not come to fruition. He is currently in a relationship with model Gigi Paris .

Jay Ellis stars as elite aviator Reuben ‘Payback’ Fitch. His career is essentially made up of short films or movies for the small screen. Escape Room was the first major production in which he participated. He is in a relationship with Serbian model Nina Senior, the mother of his only daughter, Nora Grace, who was born in 2019.

Greg Tarzan Davis is the revelation of the film directed by Joseph Kosinski -an architect by profession and filmmaker by passion-. He is famous for his character as Dr. Jordan Wright on Grey’s Anatomy, as well as his strict physical training plan. The 29-year-old actor will return to share a recording set with Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.

We have already seen Danny Ramírez in other action productions, including Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and The Gifted. Before opting for acting, the 29-year-old interpreter tried his luck in American football, but injuries cut short his dream. In the new installment of Top Gun, he is Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia, another of the prodigious students of the United States Navy.

The aviators of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Kara Wang and Monica Barbaro play Callie ‘Halo’ Bassett and Natasha ‘Phoenix’ Trace, respectively. They are the only two women who are part of the group of pilots, which triggers their fight against gender prejudice. Barbaro stands out for her role in the series The Good Cop and next year she will star in the movie At Midnight with Diego Boneta. While Wang shot to stardom in 2020 after starring in the apocalyptic The Calm Beyond.

In addition to the signing of Jon Hamm, known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men, Top Gun: Maverick marked the return of Val Kilmer and Jennifer Connelly, who had already had a brief appearance in the first film.