“Top Gun” was the biggest box-office hit of 1986 and remains one of the most-loved movies of that decade. Its success catapulted Tom Cruise to superstardom, and he is still one of the most famous faces on the planet. But would either have happened if Cruise hadn’t changed his mind after initially turning down the lead role? “Tom was our first choice,” Bruckheimer told me. “I don’t think we ever went out to anybody else, and it took a wooing process to get him.”
It took wooing process to get Tom Cruise interested in Top Gun.
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