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Austin Butler Is No Top Gun, But He Finally Gets Lift In ‘Masters Of The Air’


Austin Butler appears to be a go-to guy when it comes to flight films. During a conversation this week with Josh Horowitz for his Happy Sad Confused podcast at The 92nd Street Y, New York, Butler s…

During a conversation this week with Josh Horowitz for his Happy Sad Confused podcast at The 92nd Street Y, New York, Butler said he had been in the running for a role in Top Gun: Maverick. Despite Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’s release coming nearly three years before Top Gun: Maverick, they were filmed around the same time in the summer of 2018. He’s in Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air, which sees him play pilot Major Gale Cleven, a.k.a.

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