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Lewis Hamilton Regrets Turning Down Tom Cruise For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Role
Lewis Hamilton is reflecting on turning down Tom Cruise after he offered him a role in ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’
In a new interview, Hamilton revealed he lobbied Tom Cruise to star in a possible Top Gun sequel before the 2022 film was made. When Maverick entered the casting stage, Cruise remembered Hamilton and offered him a role as a pilot, but the racer had to decline due to his schedule, something he now regrets. “There’s two different fan groups that we have — like, the old originals, who from the day they’re born hearing the Grand Prix music every weekend and watching with their families, to the new generation that just learned about it today through Netflix.”
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