We ask Teller whether he enjoyed that autonomy as an actor: “No, dude!” he laughs. “But we were also camera operators who would start and stop the camera, which meant we’d have to be in charge of the continuity of it all – making sure that our eyelines matched with what had been filmed earlier, and that everything was cohesive from take to take.” So that doesn't look right.Įvery type of movie preparation I’ve done has been unique – but this one was really tough. “Once we got up in the jet, the only person we could talk to was the pilot,” Teller explains, “and we would have to be perfectly in sync with them because if he, for example, moves the stick left and I’m a second behind, now the plane is moving ahead of time and I'm a little delayed. As the movie’s director, Joseph Kosinski, explained in a separate interview with TechRadar, the F-18 fighter jets used throughout were fitted with six cockpit cameras, and the actors themselves were tasked with ensuring that footage captured in the air was up to scratch. So, I mean, every type of movie preparation I’ve done has been unique – but this one was really tough.”īut Top Gun: Maverick didn’t only prove a physical challenge for Teller and company. “And then ,” Teller continues, “we were flying almost every day, and it was a skill that we had to keep practising constantly.
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