Glen Powell discussed the advice his 'Top Gun: Maverick' co-star Tom Cruise gave him about embracing his character.
"Lean into the d-----baggery of it all," Powell claims Cruise told him., a cocky pilot being trained by Cruise's character, Capt. Pete"Maverick" Mitchell.
"Sometimes you can fall into the trap of wanting to be liked on camera," Powell explained during a conversation with Kate Hudson for Variety."And in a movie like this, where you know there’s going to be a lot of eyes on it, you don’t want to be Draco Malfoy," he said, referencing the infamous bad-boy in the"Harry Potter" series.
"Tom gave me this advice: ‘For the ending to work, you have to completely lean into that. Everybody else in the movie is questioning their own ability,'" Powell said, recalling what Cruise said about Powell’s character. "You’re the only guy that’s not questioning it. So, if there’s any sort of apology in anything you say, the movie doesn’t work. Lean into the d-----baggery of it all."
Glen Powell, right, says Tom Cruise told him to "lean into the d-----baggery" of his character in "Top Gun: Maverick."
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