Miles Teller: actor, pilot … singer!
TheTop Gun: Maverickstar, 35, performsJerry Lee Lewis' “Great Balls of Fire” ina never-before-seen clipfrom the recently released sequel, which Paramount Pictures shared on Thursday.
Teller’s character Rooster wears a pair of (what else?) aviator-style sunglasses as he tickles the ivories amid a crowd of people singing along, including several fellow student pilots.
The entire bar chants “Rooster! Rooster! Rooster!” at the end of the scene, as he does a mini victory dance while getting up from the piano.
According to an official synopsis, in the movie, part of the scene plays out “while Maverick (Tom Cruise) reminisces of the time he and Goose (Anthony Edwards) played the same song in the original film.” The new clip shows Teller’s performance in its entirety.
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Miles Teller inTop Gun: Maverick(2022).Paramount Pictures/YouTube
Chatting withSeth MeyersonLate Nightthis week, Teller recalled filming the box-office-shattering sequel to 1986’sTop Gun, revealing that he discovered he had “flame retardant, pesticidesand jet fuel” in his bloodstreamafter breaking out in hives on the high-flying set of the movie.
While Teller was thrown for a loop at first, “Then I thought, wait a second, this is actually kinda cool,“he admitted to Meyers, 48.
The next day, he returned to set, where costar and legacy cast member Cruise, 59, asked him what the bloodwork found.
“I was like, ‘Well, Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood,’ " Teller said. “Without even skipping a beat, Tom just goes, ‘Yeah, Iwas born with it, kid.’ "
“So that was a very Tom moment for me,” he added.
Miles Teller inTop Gun: Maverick(2022).Paramount Pictures
Among his young charges is Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Teller), the son of his late best friend Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Edwards, 59).
Top Gun: Maverickis now playing in theaters.
source: people.com
