We are cleared into the area.
Verify cameras are on.
All right, here we go.
Three, two, one...
Here come some Gs.
There's five Gs.
Six Gs.
Seven Gs.
All right.
That was awesome!
I wasn't ready to make a sequel
until we had a special story worthy of a sequel.
And until technology evolved so we could delve deeper
into the experience of a fighter pilot.
The first movie became something that changed a generation.
So this is exciting to come back and get in those jets again.
We worked with the Navy
and the Top Gun School to formulate how to shoot it practically,
because if we're going to do it, we're going to fly in the F-18s.
The aviation sequences had to be real.
So our actors went through three months of grueling training.
The Navy says if you eject, you have to be able to survive in the water.
So we had to go through a challenging underwater program.
It's intense.
You’re flipped, inverted, and you're having to try and get out.
From there, Tom designed this all encompassing aviation
training for all the actors.
I started out in a single engine airplane
to build up their spatial awareness inside the aircraft.
Oh, wow!
That's amazing!
Oh, my God!
Next, we took them to the L-39,
and they went and flew aerobatics to feel
what it's like in a jet.
Gettin' some speed. Wow!
From there, they graduate to the F-18 Super Hornet,
and actually launching off an aircraft carrier.
That's what I'm talking about!
Woo!
The actors also had to learn how to run the cameras
because when they're up in the jet,
they have to direct themselves, essentially.
OK, I'm rolling.
I had to really teach them cinematography
and the lighting so that they understood
what's gonna look good on camera.
That angle's great.
Everybody thought it would be impossible
for actors to really be in the jets.
But that's the gift that Tom gave us,
that by the time we got up there,
we could handle it.
Definitely the most amazing thing I've ever done.
All the training, 100% prepared us.
I'm very proud of what we all accomplished.
Each one of them are extraordinary.
It still blows my mind that we've done this.
There's nothing like it.