Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell on the Shirtless Beach Scene and the Cinematography

Last week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, shortly before being presented with the CinemaCon Male Star of Tomorrow Award, I was able to speak with Glen Powell about his fantastic work in director Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick. In the film, Powell plays Hangman, a Top Gun graduate and one of the main characters in the sequel opposite Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. During the interview, Powell talked about what it was like working with director of photography Claudio Miranda, why Kosinski was the perfect director to helm the material, how they honored the legacy of Tony Scott, what it was really like filming the shirtless beach scene, what it’s been like waiting for the film to come out, and the reaction to the premiere and everyone praising the film. In addition, we both geek out at the beginning of the interview because Robert De Niro was standing a few feet from us. Top Gun Maverick also stars Val Kilmer as Tom “Iceman“ Kazansky, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Lewi