Can you imagine Top Gun without Tom Cruise? Well, that was almost the case, according to Jerry Bruckheimer. The legendary producer told Extra’s Jenn Lahmers that the actor turned that role several times.
So how did Bruckheimer eventually get him to do it? He got the Blue Angels to take Cruise up with them, and the rest is cinematic history.
That is the cool story from the skies; want to hear the ugly one? Bruckheimer also revealed which actors vomited during their scenes up there. The answer is all of them, but Cruise. Even Kelly McGillis did it. She didn’t, but I am sure she thought about it because all of those actors most likely reeked of it.
Now that you know more than you wanted to know about Top Gun, you can go see it in theaters again for its 35th anniversary.
Back to Cruise, if he had turned down Top Gun, the movie that launched his career to superstardom, we probably would be talking about the actor who replaced him. You know, like Michael J. Fox, who replaced that other actor in Back to the Future. Can you name who the original Marty McFly was? Hint, he wore a Mask.
We know that the cast of Friends shot the Friends reunion last month, and we want to know more. Therefore, when Lisa Kudrow was on Conan yesterday, he wanted her to spill all the beans. And she did.
Well, all she can tell him. That is because Warner Bros gave her some talking points. They are, “Joined by special guests, we will all, the cast, return to the original sound stage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros Studio Lot for an unscripted reunion special in celebration of the show.” In the words of Porky Pig, “Th-th-that’s all, folks.”
Well, maybe not all. She also said that the six of them ventured over to their Warner Bros’ other lot, a few blocks away, to shoot something by the infamous fountain. That’s right; it is not on the same lot where they shot the show. Here is another factoid, I used to live across the street from it! Not that you care, but I still told you. So there’s that.
And there are also some clips that are shown during the special that Kudrow hasn’t seen before. The actress revealed to O’Brien that she didn’t watch the later years of the sitcom. Not because she didn’t want to, it is because she had a kid, and he was more important.
Now that Kudrow has revealed all of that information about the HBO Man unscripted reunion, are you even more excited to see it?
Barbara Corcoran did a cute TikTok video where she admitted how much plastic surgery she has gotten over the years. The mogul got three facelifts and her eyes and knees done twice each.
I want to know who she goes to because I couldn’t even tell that she got anything done. I think the 72-year-old looks natural. Can you believe that our favorite Shark in the Tank is that old?
On Monday, NBC announced that they were not going to air The Golden Globes next year. Therefore, the awards show was canceled. That means that January 9th is now available for another ceremony to jump in and steal that date, and the Critics’ Choice Awards, did just that.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with The CW again and looking forward to gathering in person to celebrate the finest work of this upcoming season,” said Critics Choice Association CEO Joey Berlin. “The 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards will mark a return to the glamorous, star-studded revelry that make these nights absolutely unforgettable.”
The CCA also needs to steal the Globes statuette to be their own because it took a lot of balls to do what they did.
