Anthony Edwards, Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’ co-star, reacts to the ‘Maverick’ sequel

• Anthony who was also the part of Top Gun: Maverick has revealed his reaction to the movie
• He told in his interview that he was lucky enough that tom called him up and screened the movie for him
• Anthony praised the sequel 

Anthony Edwards, who played Top Gun in the Tom Cruise film Top Gun: Maverick, has revealed his reaction to the film. He also expressed his opinions on how the sequel’s makers handled the legacy of his beloved character.

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The 59-year-old Golden Globe winner, who played Lt. Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw in the 1986 original Top Gun, shared his thoughts at the world premiere of Jennifer Lopez’s Halftime documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.

“If you do the first movie, you’re lucky enough,” Edwards told the media outlet. “I was lucky enough that Tom called me up. He screened it for me in person.”

While Goose does not appear in the sequel, his memory is carried on through a barrage of images and flashbacks, as well as through his son, Lt Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw, played by Miles Teller.

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Praising the sequel, Edwards said, “When something’s that successful, people had a certain feeling in the original one.”

“And [Top Gun: Maverick] does exactly what it felt like seeing it the first time, only more,” he explained. “As I said to Tom, ‘Mission accomplished.’ They did it. They really did though. It’s a lot of work that went into that. But it had the feel, it had the tone, it had what people wanted.”

Cruise, 59, reprised his role in Top Gun: Maverick more than 35 years after appearing in the original. The sequel sees Maverick step into the trainer’s shoes and trains a new class of fighter pilots for the mission of a lifetime.