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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She'll pretty much look like mom, for better or for worse according to how she lives and takes care of herself.
Civilian functionary.
The issue with her isn’t her age. She wasn’t invited back a) because she’s let herself go (horribly) and b) she’s a lesbian.
In a similar vein, I’ve noticed that game shows seem to prefer ‘married’ queers, single queers, and blacks to the virtual exclusion of whites lately. I’m starting to feel like a minority.
Doesnt surprise me. I met George “Im an asshole liberal” Clooney at the studio recently and he doesn’t look anything close to his tabloid pics. He looks horrible..
“To whom does she owe an appearance you find appealing?”
Hollywood casting directors. If Tom Cruise had aged like, say, Ozzy Osbourne, I doubt we would be seeing a sequel to Top Gun.
No way!!!
Too old. Men age like fine wine while women.......
Why are. people harassing her? She got old! So?
That’s Colleen Camp????? WOW!
I’m glad she turned me down when I asked her to marry me.........
“a gorgeous girl. Saw a current picture of her a few years back and DAM$. Homely, fat, unrecognizable”
I saw a knock-down beautiful girl from high school (50 yrs ago) a while back. She only dated the top football stud at the time (got divorced). I wouldn’t say she is ugly or worse than average now, but certainly no better. Whereas really nice-looking women are interested in dating me now.
I think you answered a different question, but I agree, movie casting is its own thing, and the people in charge can hire the performers they want. Ms. McGillis seems not to want to be in movies any longer, so everyone’s fine.
My cousin is in the casting business, and my uncle told me that she’s said, “We might have hired this girl if she’d had a makeover to look the way we said we wanted the character to look.” It wasn’t anything about their basic looks, but the kind of thing a hairstylist and makeup could do.
“Saw a current picture of her a few years back and DAM$. Homely, fat, unrecognizable.”
I’ve had that countless times. A few regrets..and NOT regrets. The hot girlfriends I had in college, a majority, really let themselves go. A very few of my ex-GF’s, got better looking even after marriage. And what really got me was that the fugly girls in high school got hotter in 10 years which pissed me off LOL because I could have said yes to a date back then...
Because you're sweet, Steve. Don't get taken in!
Pretty face, seriously overweight!!! She must be 30 to 40 pounds overweight.
A friend of mine who pretty much stayed in the town we both grew up in told me one of the ugliest, shunned girls in our class, forty years later, is a stunning beauty. One never knows, do one?
Oh no...she’s in Hendersonville, NC. I’ll never visit the mountains again.
I disagree. The uglier Tommy Lee Jones gets, the better looking he gets. That goes also for Al Pacino. Women have the appearance edge over men initially, but nature turns the tables over time.
Ought to tell her that’s her future as well, after she does that ‘ohhhh’ to you.
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