“Top Gun: Maverick” is the kind of smash people can’t stop talking about months after its release.
The box office receipts! The cool jets! A story so apolitical it’s … political! And yet a key player in the original franchise didn’t join Team “Maverick.”
Kelly McGillis.
She played the stoic instructor who melted over Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the 1986 original. Yet while the sequel brought back Val Kilmer despite health woes that robbed him of his voice, McGillis didn’t get the nod.
Could it be that McGillis, in her early 60s now, is not as conventionally beautiful as she appeared in the original story? The actress explained in 2019 why she didn’t get the call, taking it in good stride.
“I mean, I’m old and I’m fat, and I
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