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Don’t expect to see Tom Cruise’s original Top Gun love interest in the sequel. According to Kelly McGillis, who played Charlie in the 1986 action drama, she was not asked to participate in the upcoming sequel Top Gun: Maverick, despite many of her co-stars appearing in the film. McGillis told ET that she doesn’t plan on attending any events for Top Gun: Maverick for a variety of reasons, not least because she has yet to be asked: “It hasn’t happened,” she said, adding, “I don’t really keep in touch with anybody.”
In 1986, McGillis broke out in a major way when she played Top Gun‘s Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, an astrophysicist and Topgun instructor. Cruise’s Maverick quickly falls for Charlie, and the film ends (spoilers ahead for a 30-year-old movie, I guess) with them reuniting at a bar near the base. After Top Gun, McGillis went on to star in a series of high-profile projects, including Made in Heaven, The Accused, and The Babe.
When asked if she plans on attending any red carpets or promotional events for Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick, McGillis was clear. “I don’t know how to answer that because one, it hasn’t happened,” the 62-year-old actress told ET. “Two, if and when it did happen, I would have to assess where I am, what I’m doing, what’s going on … I can’t project what I would or wouldn’t do in the future. I have no idea because I don’t know where I’ll be.”
“Movies are odd things. I don’t really keep in touch with anybody,” McGillis continued. “I think I’ve spoken to a couple of people occasionally, but the truth is, movies are very odd work situations because you have a lot of people who come together from all different parts of the world.” She added that while she has yet to see the Top Gun: Maverick trailer, she harbors no ill-will towards Maverick’s new love interest, played by Jennifer Connelly. “I’m glad for her,” said McGillis, noting that she’s “so glad that [Connelly] got that opportunity.”
Read McGillis’ entire interview with ET here. Top Gun: Maverick hits theaters in June 2020.
