It would have been easy enough for "Top Gun: Maverick" to simulate the actors playing the pilots flying through the sky with green screen and digital effects. However, the "Maverick" production went the extra mile by having these actors go through insane flight training so that they’d be used to high g-forces and acrobatic plane movement. when actually up in the air. The downside to taking part in such a spectacle was there was a lot of vomiting on the "Maverick" set, but Tom Cruise provided some encouragement for his younger co-stars on how to work through this messiness.

At "Top Gun: Maverick’s" world premiere, Miles Teller, who plays Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, talked with CinemaBlend about even though he and his costars weren’t actually flying these fighter planes, the hours of training they’d put in beforehand helped out a lot with them being able to look comfortable in a cockpit while the cameras were rolling. As for the subject of the actors losing their lunch, here’s what Monica Barbaro, who plays Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, had to say to The New York Times about Tom Cruise’s advice: