Kelly Mcgillis responds to Top Gun Snub

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Tammy is probably steaming mad and envious that she has the calm confidence to say things like “I’m old and I’m fat...”. He’s trapped in his little closet and struggling to stay relevant and getting plastic surgery and she’s just like “Ehhh... I’m just gonna say the truth over here.”

I kinda love her, too.

Good for her.

Frankly, it was always strange that they hired an actress who was 5 years older than Cruise AND looked it at the time. Granted, the backstory of the character kind of required her to be a certain age.

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Good for her, and too bad for Hollywood that it can't appreciate older women who have brains and experience and who frankly do not give a fuck.

At age 57, Tom Cruise is an aging Peter Pan who is trying to look young forever. Then he stars in action movies to try and prove that he's a real man and sues anyone if they say he's gay.

I'll take Kelly's attitude over his any day.

What a great old broad!

[quote]’d much rather feel absolutely secure in my skin and who and what I am at my age,

Then why didn't she appear on camera for the interview?

[quote] Then why didn't she appear on camera for the interview?

Why would she? She clearly doesn’t give a shit about the movie.

R8 Because she has nothing to prove to snarky, bitchy commentators. No fucks given

Well, I mean....I'm sure she looks fine for her age, but let's be honest, it would be a little jarring for her to appear in the movie, given how smoking hot she was in the original. Sorry!

It would be awkward for Tom, who thinks he looks exactly the same as he did in the original movie.

R12 Exactly! This a movie to show us how timeless and youthful Tom Fucking Cruise is! He is the male Norma Desmond. He is the Madonna of actors!

Tom Cruise didn’t invent the “old guy with hot young chick” trope in TV and movies. He’s just making millions and millions of dollars off of it.

I’m glad Kelly is happy but can she pay her bills?

How does she support herself?

Honesty. With her statement she puts this new movie into its place.

R15 she has worked, married her partner at some point.

The frau-lovers are out tonight.

R8 Maybe she was having a bad hair day.

R12 Not necessarily. When you catch him in a non-publicity pose you can see the ravages of time setting in slowly but surely.

R20 🤣

[quote]The character is based on a real-life person, Christine Fox, who worked at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

[quote]Fox became the highest-ranking female official in history to serve in the United States Department of Defense.

She didn't have to be sexy in the remake.

It'd be weird to see a powerful man with an old lady.

She should’ve added, “Now if it were a sequel to Witness - I’d be offended!”

Erm, R20? I think you’ll find that’s Martin Short.

I have to agree with R11, what were they going to do? Wheel her out of the shadows, have her extend her claw and go, “Mav...er - Rick?!” Kelly McGillis wasn’t exactly out and proud in the ‘80s and was as big of a closet case as Tammy Cruise.

If she doesn’t fit in this milieu any longer - and it’s a very strange one, to be sure - it has just as much to do with how she presented herself at the time and who she is now. She was uncomfortable being a Hollywood actress at the time and she’s much more comfortable with herself now. Doesn’t mean they have to shoehorn her in to this freak show.

i like her candor.

I totally agree with her, but I also just can't imagine them as a couple now or having a hot sex scene in the movie. Dilemma.

It wouldn’t make sense that Maverick was with the same woman now anyway. She was a summer fling.

clam Tommy was never going to bring in a former on screen love interest where the audience could think 'isn't that actress a lesbian?'

It's her weight more than anything else. She still has the incredible facial structure, with the right hair and makeup she'd look older but still beautiful. She let herself go (by Hollywood standards, anyway), and now she complains?

Why would she need to ge his love interest in the film? Would be great if she were his boss or in some other senior position. I’d love it if they made her a late in life lesbian!

People change, I ran into an old boyfriend from 25 years ago. He’s now old and fat (but happy), we had a nice chat.

I agree, R32, her character could have been reinvented as a badass lesbian, would've been fun. But again, the weight was a problem.

[quote] At age 57, Tom Cruise is an aging Peter Pan who is trying to look young forever. Then he stars in action movies to try and prove that he's a real man and sues anyone if they say he's gay.

What is he supposed to do, get fat and stop working? I admire his dedication and work ethic. It is not easy to be physically fit at 57. It requires deprivation and punishment.

Not so crazy about the Scientology.

Old fat actresses appear in movies all the time. Even some action ones, thought they don't do the action bits.

^^ Dame Judi Dench. Old and fat but still fabulous as "M".

Problem with McGillis is that most remember her as the hot love interest in Top Gun not a fat superior.

And she was off the charts hot, so incredibly gorgeous. Everybody back then was calling her the new Grace Kelly. None of us can hold onto that kind of youthful beauty, but you can’t fall too far and expect to be cast in a huge movie.

R25 LMAO! No, that is not Martin Short. R31 I don't hear her complaining at all. In fact, just the opposite.

R32: Maybe some other time, Blanche.

Tom and Val (in trunks) doing a volleyball scene in the present is the only reason I would see this movie.

In the 80s, you knew kelly would grow into those shoulders just like Kathleen Turner grew into hers.

I guess Val lost all his weight to be in this film. Wonder how big or small his part will be?

I totally forgot Val had throat cancer. Can he speak properly now?? This clip is so painful to see (and hear.)

Maybe Val and Kelly can play Tom's parents?

R22 you forget too easy

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Kathy Bates is old and fat (though not as fat as she used to be). Of course she's a damn good actress. More so than Kelly ever was who, let's face it, only ever got cast for her looks first, acting talent second.

Hopefully this will result in her getting some better roles instead of the Syfy Channel shit with giant crocodiles she's done lately. Maybe she do some Hallmark movie or series. They love has-beens (they're cheap) and she looks real.

There was always a rumor that she and Jodie foster had an affair while making "The Accused", and that one day Whitney Houston showed up on set and got into a fist fight with one or both of them. Was one of them dating Whitney prior to the affair? (I thought Whitney began dating her real partner in her teens.)

No one is going to see a Top Gun sequel. lmao

R49 You would think, right?? I won't be seeing it, I HATED the first one and it's equally shitty soundtrack, but a lot of dudes are fucking NUT JOBS about this movie, young and old alike.

At least they've cast Jennifer Connelly as Cruise's apparently love interest and she's semi-age appropriate.

I'm assuming Meg Ryan has a big role in this new film?

R52, she was, but she demanded a separate trailer for her new lips.

The question is why they waited 33 years to do a sequel?!

R54 Because Tommy wants another big movie hit.

I didn’t hear complaining just stating facts. She said “I’m old and fat” and it’s quite refreshing.

I didn’t hear complaining just stating facts. She said “I’m old and fat” and it’s quite refreshing.

R54 Tommy needs everyone to see how youthful and amazing he his.

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I did NOT copy a link to that retarded, long, old Top Gun trailer.

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She had awesome hair

She was every dyke's dream in the 80s.

She’s pretty much known for three films:

Witness Top Gun The Accused

Her entire relevant filmography in five words and an article.

*four words

She has a lot of skin to be happy in.

Despite the incredible bro popularity of the original, I’ll bet a lot of guys will avoid this because they don’t want to spoil the appeal of the first one.

Plus, the first one is known for all of the exciting, real aerial photography. Don’t know if this one delivers on that scale. The sequel is definitely an old white guy movie. No other demographic for it.

Chief Nursing Administrator Kelly McGillis at every hospital in the US circa 1990

Who is Norma Desmond?

Hey, she was in three films that were well loved and went on to be classics or at least cult classics. They air all the time on TV to this day. That's a better career than a lot of people.

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How in the world was Val Kilmer able to participate in a Top Gun sequel?

In this clip from a week ago, he is struggling to speak through one of those voicebox things and drooling all over himself.

She demanded that a sizzling lezbionic lockerroom scissoring scene be included in the sequel, but was coldly rejected.

Her kids go to (went to?) the same Pediatrics practice as my kids in Pennsylvania.

Well R74, it’s that kind of billing that kept her out of the TG sequel.

She was, R46! Alas, the film was shit.

A friend of mine told me that they had to use glycerin drops to make fake tears for Meg Ryan because she couldn’t muster up real ones for that scene. Not sure if it’s true, but she knew a lot of showbiz people back in the day.

Holy shit, Val is unintelligible. Is he long for this world? Did he have a tracheotomy?

Is Val's appearance strictly a non-speaking cameo or are they dubbing him? I had no idea it was that bad. Poor guy.

Lov that she has the balls to go there. She looks good and she’s right, her personal peace, sobriety and happiness are of most importance.

Kelly has nothing to feel bad about, nor does any of the rest of the Top Gun cast for not being hot at 60 years old.