The American actor, expected by a crowd of admirers, participated in a meeting on Wednesday May 18, before the screening of his new film, “Top Gun. Maverick”, at the Palais des Festivals.
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There are three pilots in the hall of the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes, Wednesday May 18: the general who commands fighter planes of the Air Force, the Lieutenant-Colonel who directs the Patrouille de France , and a howled with a fair suit. And then, on stage, there is Tom Cruise, the Top Gun pilot, a thirty -something almost 60 years old (July 3), always bugged like a plane, dressed in black, teenage hair, smile that kills, that ‘A thousand people applaud standing (all with – at least – a smartphone that films), even before he could say a word.
“Top Gun is the film that made me want to be a pilot, whispers, next to us, Lieutenant-Colonel Aurélien Hazet. I was 6 years old when he came out.” He At 42 today, he came to see and hear his legendary hero in this “master class” of the star among the stars (Taps, Risky Business, Rain Man, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, Mission: Impossible 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…), which stacks for a suite – Top Gun. Maverick – who hopes just as stainless.
At 4 years old, the actor dreamed of making films, he tells a room under opiate in high doses, which applauds each time he resumes his breath. Make movies, see the world, and then fly: “I remember the time when I wanted to parachute: I took the sheets from my bed, I went on the roof … and just when you Starts in the void, you say to yourself, but it’s completely stupid. “He crashes on the ground. “For the first time, I saw stars in broad daylight, I said to myself:” Ah! It’s interesting “, he says with his irresistible smile of first communicant. And then I was yelled at by my mother because the sheets were very dirty.”
“An aeronautical enthusiast”
The sympathetic lieutenant-colonel is delighted: “Tom Cruise is passionate about aeronautics, a real one,” he says. The day before, the Patrouille de France came to welcome the star at Nice airport, where he arrived from London aboard his private jet. The time of a debriefing between air threads. “In place rear in fighter planes, he told us how his challenge was to go beyond the wonder of the wonder to be able to play.”
On the airliner 701 of Salon-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), 150 kilometers as the crow flies, the eight patrol aircraft are about to take off. The climb of the steps, Wednesday evening, it will be with aerial parade, blue-white-red tracks in the firmament. French top gun. While the meeting ends, the Hurluberlu with the Albanian steward cap and an elegant blonde in red overalls, mechanic trend of the aeronavale, try to go on stage. We think of a femen. False alert, she remains dressed … Tom Cruise always smiles. We worry that he does not finish deaf to be applauded.