Kelly McGillis isn't in the new Top Gun sequel

Too old, OP. Way too old.

same age is Tom.

Yeah but he looks better, R2. Have you seen a recent pic of her? Not a pretty sight.

somebody link that clip of Quentin Tarantino explaining how Top Gun is about a man struggling with his homosexuality.

Too old to be a love interest.

It's a mans world. Tom isn't too old then Kelly shouldn't be either.

Kelly looks like shit. Tom Cruise still looks hot. That's the difference.

Kelly is five years older than Tom. But, yeah she has aged badly. She had addiction issues for many years. She got clean and started working as a drug counselor at rehab center for several years.

Not camera friendly.

Quentin Tarantino explaining Top Gun

Poor Kelly was never asked. Shame on Tom! With his power, he could've got her hired so that audiences could see this hot couple rekindle their romance.

Poor Kelly was never asked. Shame on Tom! With his power, he could've got her hired so that audiences could see this hot couple rekindle their romance.

Too openly ugly.

She shoulda been cast — post-Don't Ask stunt casting.

Oh please, Tom's leading ladies are always under thirty and stunning.

He is in massive denial about his age, and he wouldn't be making this stupid movie if he weren't - there are no 57-year-old fighter pilots! No, it's a young man's profession, by the late fifties pilots are either in the military brass, commercial aviation, or dead.

How did they justify including half-dead Val Kilmer in this then? What role does Iceman play here, does he die or something?

R16 I don't think he'll be in the movie that long.

She was beautiful in Witness -- stunning really. The scene where Harrison Ford sees her as she bares her breasts was not sexual as much as it was about exposing her vulnerability and their mutual desire.

In Top Gun, her character seemed more like a forced plot device. The real romance was between Maverick and Goose.

Take My Breath Away for the wrong reasons.

She didn’t age in Sharon Stone years. If she still looked decent he would have included her, perhaps not as a love interest, but given her a cameo.

Was she taking any medication? I am always baffled when beautiful women let themselves go. Kelly LeBrock let herself go too.

She has aged badly, or at least non-Hollywood-ly. But I can't imagine even a well-preserved 62-year-old woman as a love interest in a movie like this. That doesn't happen.

Well, I can think of one example of something similar, when Indiana Jones married fifty-something Marion/Karen Allen in the last movie. But that's it.

What r15 said. Tom is never going to accept the fact that he's any older than 35-ish. A military fighter pilot in his late 50s is absolutely ludicrous.

So is hanging on the wing of a flying plane R23, but Tom did in one of his movies.

The grim reaper Val kilmer's in it. Explain that to me. Why not her? The fact is they're all old. I don't care how much Botox Tom Cruise gets he's freaking old. It's a movie we didn't ask for.

R21 McGillis was a heavy drinker and drug user for years. She has said part of the reason she turned to substance abuse to cope with the trauma of her rape that took place in the early 80s.

Colleen Camp also went through a shocking transformation. In Colleen's case it was during a relatively short time.

Tom gets older, but his leading ladies stay the same age.

Odd how Cruise has completely given up doing stuff like Born on the Fourth of July or Magnolia. It's just action stuff. Mission Impossible 8, can you believe?

The work Tom's had done is getting a bit too obvious. If he keeps it up, he'll be in Burt Reynolds territory before long.

r29 my theory is that Cruise finally realized that he would never win an Oscar and just said "fuck it." he went for sure-fire crowd-pleasers to stay popular and rake in the $$$.

I'm not a big Cruise fan, but I have to admit the Mission Impossible movies are a lot of fun. The last one with Cavill was very entertaining.

She's still got it.

Given how frequently she appeared nude in her films, even full frontal, I wouldn't be surprised if she would get naked again even now.

Kelly McGillis then and now.

She now looks like a Gender Studies professor at UMASS Amherst.

She was quite stunning at one time.

Their pairing looks weird even in this not so recent photo. Today it would just be sad.

I've gained weight (30 pounds) after quitting smoking. Surprisingly my Dr. says I am at the right weight now. I feel miserable with the added weight and it is a little bit depressing to me. Because she was hot when she was younger I wish she had taking care of herself, but if she is happy that is what really matters.

"Well, I can think of one example of something similar, when Indiana Jones married fifty-something Marion/Karen Allen in the last movie. "

It wouldn't have happened if she actually looked fifty!

She looked great, and about half Indy's age.

Will Anthony Edwards appear as the late great Goose in a dream sequence?

I never thought she was attractive, though. She was Just looks worse now.

Meg Ryan wasn't asked back either. (and yes she was in the original.)

She looks like his mother in R36 picture.

I have an Emmy and an Oscar BTW and I'm taller.

To tell someone that they're too old and not feminine enough is incredibly cruel.

oh dear r9 she has really let herself go

LMAO r31 where did you dig that up? I dare not click on it.

They could have taken her to the Hair Cuttery and fixed herself up a little bit and then put her in the damn movie.

The thing is, Tom has taken good care of himself and stays in shape, the rest of the original cast haven’t.

I had a girlfriend that was hot like Kelly. Saw her a few years after we had broken up and she had gained a lot of weight. I was surprised she had let herself go because she sure liked the attention she would get.

She can still take his breath away— by sitting on him.

R50 Good one! lol...…..

Will Rick Rossovich make an appearance?

Was Adrian Pasdar asked to be in the sequel?

Is Meg Ryan in it?

No, Meg Ryan isn't in it.

r55 So another woman who aged out of Hollywood basically.

TC looks exceptional compared to the others.

TC went to that plastic surgeon (forget his name) who has his own island somewhere in South America. He does a lot of VVIPs and he's VERY discreet.

How about Barry Tubb, who allegedly used to fuck Kelly McGillis in real life? Was he asked back?

no. I think only Val Kilmer is back from the first film.

Tubb was a cutey back in the day. Kind of a gay icon from that Marlo Thomas TV movie Consenting Adult. Early crush of mine. You'd have thought he'd have a better career.

I am surprised that Meg Ryan isn't doing a cameo at least since she would have been playing the mother of Miles Teller's character.

I guess her bad plastic surgery wouldn't look good since in super hi-def.

[quote] Poor Kelly was never asked. Shame on Tom!

For reasons that are well known to her.

She's an overweight dyke. That's why she's not in the movie.

Barry Tubb was beautiful.

The young Tubb and the young McGillis looked like they could be siblings.

Id rather see them team up again for a remake of The Accused but with Tammy playing Jodie Foster's role.

They had zero chemistry in the original film anyway. It’s unlikely Maverick would even remember her. “Oh yeah...you were that chick I was trying to get with when Goose died.” About the size of it.

Apparently, the Take My Breath Away/love scene was a reshoot after preview audiences expressed confusion about their relationship. If you look closely, she’s standing in a ditch and he has his Color of Money hair - covered with a towel around his neck. She wears the jacket because of weight gain or something. The whole thing is bathed in blue light to try and hide these inconsistencies.

Plus, what are they going to do? Play Take My Breath Away as a 62 year-old woman is wheeled into view? There probably aren’t any women in it. Can’t believe charisma free Miles Teller is in it. Good grief.

Can't have her getting in the way of all the homoerotica.

That’s my job this time!

There's no place for an old grey haired lesbian in the TG sequel.

She could’ve at least played her original character’s fat momma.

Tom has been heavily surgically altered, and he's a clam..Why the fuck should anyone give this Scientologist moron (who is held/holds himself up to be god) their money to see his shitty films?! Let that fucker jump the dhak a d fade into obscurity. He can be the real-life male version of Norma Desmond!

"But I can't imagine even a well-preserved 62-year-old woman as a love interest in a movie like this. That doesn't happen."

I know Hollywood can be cruel, especially for older women. But I was surpised it was such a big deal when Kim Catrall turned down the role as Samantha in the SATC sequel movie. A 60 years old sex hungry grandma was not really something I wanted to see anyway. She was already too old for that role in the first movie.

The picture of McGillis used in this thread is highly unflattering. She's gained weight recently but looks a lot better in Maternal Secrets from 2018 than she does in that Radar Online "shocking after photos" article.

For someone who battled addictions, health problems and even got attacked in her own home recently, I think looks fine. She hasn't had the kind of career where she needs to keep going under the knife like Tom Cruise has.

Does she have any career left?

I remember having a major crush on Barry Tubb, when I first saw him in “TopGun” and thought he was going to be a major star like Tom Cruise. I think he still works in movies and films, but loved him in Consenting Adults.

Excuse me, meant “TV shows and films”.

Too much rouge......

She WILL be in it. They are going to reprise the "Take My Breath Away" scene but instead of having him drive her away in a motorcycle, she will drive him away in a motorized mobility scooter.

Damn, she looks like Shelley Winters now.

They could have recast Kelly's part with Michelle Pfeiffer. But, oh Tom prefers younger women playing his love interests.

"One-third his age plus seven" is Tom's rule of thumb.

Jennifer Connelly is close to Tom's age.

Barry Tubb was naked a lot in the long-forgotten Warm Summer Rain with Kelly Lynch. I'd prefer to remember that than contemplate a pointless Top Gun sequel.

[quote] She was quite stunning at one time.

Oh she's still stunning.... ly ugly, anyway. Kelly's looked at life from both sides now, from pretty to fug, and still somehow, she can't get a job and has disappeared. Kelly really doesn't look good, at all.

Maybe next he will make a sequel to Risky Business. Grown up Joel has to save his tech company by reuniting with Lana and engaging in one night of human trafficking that satisfies the sexual needs of his middle aged white male billionaire friends.

(Seriously, Risky Business is one of those Gen X male teen fantasy movies that is so full of misogyny and racism and that there is no way it could not be remade in the 21st Century.)

Tom Cruise homoerotic scene in Top Gun - he's the one with his ass to the camera.

According to Datalounge, that scene is absolutely NOT homoerotic, r87, because all the characters in it are heterosexual characters.

[quote]Barry Tubb was naked a lot in the long-forgotten Warm Summer Rain with Kelly Lynch. I'd prefer to remember that than contemplate a pointless Top Gun sequel.

I thought Barry looked hot with the cowboy hat in Top Gun. Loved the scene where he tells Hollywood, “I’m getting a hardon”.

According to Tony Scott, he wasn’t trying to make a homoerotic film, he just wanted to attract more female audiences to view Top Gun.

This sequel should have been made at least 15 years ago.

Yeah, they waited WAY too long to make this sequel.

I thought the same thing, but 15 years ago Cruise still had a career and a good public image. Has he been in a sucessful movie besides Mission Impossible lately? He probably needs the money and brand recognition now.

She's getting jobs, just look at the IMDb, genius.

Pointless bitchery, I know, I know, but making shit up and bitching about THAT is less than useless.

It would never work, Kelly is much butcher than Tammy.

I'm not sure 2 TV movies in the last 3 years is a red-hot career.

I guess some of you aren't familiar with later-in-life lesbians. When they finally come out of the closet, many of them go FULL-ON BULLDYKE in five minutes.

She was a dyke in high school.

[quote]"One-third his age plus seven" is Tom's rule of thumb.

Worked for me, too!

R86, I don't remember Risky Business being racist. I mean, he does turn down the black trans hooker when she knocks on his door. I guess that'd be called "literal violence" these days since he prevented a perfectly capable trans woman of color from doing her job. He could have at least sent her a donation through her PayPal for all the trauma she suffers on a day to day basis.

I'd actually like to see Rebecca DeMornay make a big comeback. Last time I saw her on screen, she was still stunningly beautiful.

The leading lady in the sequel, Jennifer Connelly is 48, so at least she's someone age appropriate. At least they didn't hire a 20 something or young 30-something for the role.

It would have been nice if they could have at least offered her a cameo. In these long-awaited sequels, people expect Easter Eggs. You don't have to make her a love interest, but put her in one of those scenes that is destined to become trivia. Make it funny, even.

Tom has no sense of humor that I can see.

It sure did, r99.......

They could have made Kelly some important hotshot in the sequel, instead of a love interest. Kelly could have easily lost weight, and have a makeup and hairstylist make her look decent.

[quote] I'd actually like to see Rebecca DeMornay make a big comeback. Last time I saw her on screen, she was still stunningly beautiful.

The last time I saw her was in Jessica Jones and I did not recognize her.

To be fair there are red carpet photos of her attending the premiere of JJ and she looked much better than on the show.

She says she didn't get the part because she looks age appropriate. The irony being that she was older than Cruise when cast in Top Gun. I also think there are plenty of actors close to her age who look much better than she does now.

^^actresses

Is there such a thing as being too comfortable in your own skin? I can't think of any actress who would have done such a scene as this, let alone a couple years after their prime.

copy URL Kelly McGillis Talks ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Slight: “I’m Old and I’m Fat, and I Look Age-Appropriate”

Maybe Kelly and Val could play an nice older couple.

Kelly McGillis: What I’ve learned, after not getting asked to be in the new Top Gun: Maverick sequel…

What did Kelly learn? There isn't much work for overweight lesbians?

There isn't much work for women over 40 in Hollywood. Producers hire a 30-something women to play the love interest of 60-year old men. If you're 60, you might get cast as the mother of a 55-year-old man. (Because the producers don't want to hire an 80-year old to play the mother.)

Hollywood doesn't want to make movies starring women over 50. It only happens if an actress likes the script and has clout (Streep/Close/McDormand) , and then it will probably be an indie production.

Streep mostly doing indie films? You must be joking.

I think it would be awesome if this movie bombed.

It won't bomb.

Tom Cruise is in it. That's a start.