Posted on 07/28/2019 2:16:05 PM PDT by Magnatron
Kelly McGillis, who played Tom Cruise's love interest in "Top Gun," claims she wasn't asked to reprise her role in the sequel "Top Gun: Maverick."
In the 1986 original, McGillis' character, Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood, is not only Maverick's lover, she's also his flight instructor.
Entertainment Tonight asked the actress if she'd attend any of the film's promotional events, and she was diplomatic yet candid in her response, admitting, "I don't know how to answer that because one, it hasn't happened. 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."
She added that she hasn't even seen the trailer for the sequel, noting "Movies are odd things. I don't really keep in touch with anybody. 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."
Jennifer Connelly has a role in the upcoming "Top Gun: Maverick," though it's unclear what part she'll play. If she's going to be Cruise's paramour in the popcorn flick, McGillis isn't bitter about it.
McGillis, 62, says she left Hollywood entirely in order to get healthy physically and psychologically.
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The leaving Hollywood to get physically and psychologically fit thing? Yeah, it didn’t work for her.
See my post above - she went full lefty lesbian.
See post 16. She isn’t.
“...she left Hollywood entirely in order to get healthy physically and psychologically.”
Don’t know about her mental condition but physically she doesn’t look any too “healthy”
Plenty of women in DoD civilian desk jobs are over 60 and heavy-set. She could have been a budget analyst or something.
As others have noted, she came out as a lesbian over a decade ago and was an avowed leftist well before that.
Doesn’t look like she did well with her fortunes, though.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Kelly+McGillis
Being anti-military loses points for me. My daughter is USMC!
That is every man’s nightmare.
But dang she was hot back then!! I remember those days
Kelly they have a role for you: Madge the fat waitress.
“I would have to assess where I am, what I’m doing,”
...wherever you are, you’ll have a plate of food in front of you, we know that much.
Time's up, in its real meaning, rears its head.
The “unfortunate” part in my post had nothing to do with her physical appearance and everything to do with her conduct. In 2013 she apologized for her role in the original Top Gun and regrets that it was used to recruit people into the military.
https://www.celebuzz.com/2013-02-08/why-does-kelly-mcgillis-want-to-apologize-for-top-gun/
“I think in the middle of it I realized “Oh my goodness, I am making the biggest recruitment film possible!” but I did realize it in the middle of it. I thought “Oh oh dear, I hope people don’t go off and make their life decisions based on a movie” but sadly enough there has been a lot of people who have said “Oh, I went in the Navy just because of you.” I am like “Oh my god… I am so sorry.””
give me a break most of us here are in the same situation she is with are bodies. for 62 she is lovely and anyone stating otherwise is just an ass. I myself just don’t have the body of a 20 something now that I am a 50 something.
Only way she would get picked up in a bar at last call is with a forklift.
She went from two hundred dollar donations down to ten dollars three years later. She’s fading away.
If they can list ten dollar donations, I wonder why my name produces no results? I donated a lot more than that in the same period.
That kind of comment is beneath the dignity of Free Republic. And besides, everyone knows she’d be best suited to play the refueling tanker.
Uber hotness when young does not equate to aging well.
At least she’s drinking water...
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