Since the announcement of his spectacular signing with Ferrari, from the 2025 season, Lewis Hamilton has regained all his media aura as a seven-time world champion. And the British Formula 1 star does not hesitate to share juicy information, as during a recent interview for the magazine GQ. It’s not about cars here, it’s about dreams of the big screen. As an ultimate fan of Top GunLewis Hamilton reveals that he had asked his friend Tom Cruise (apologies) to have a role in a possible sequel to this cult film.
“I told him, ‘Dude, if you do a Top Gun 2 – no one was talking about it yet – I want to be in it, even if it’s just to sweep the studio”, laughs the athlete. What seems like a joke actually became concrete when the project Top Gun: Maverick materialized, with director Joseph Kosinski at the helm for filming this blockbuster starting in May 2018.
“It could have been me!” »
The current Mercedes driver thus received an offer to join the casting of the sequel to Top Gunreleased in cinemas in 2022. Except that he had to decline it, to his great regret, the filming taking place in the middle of the F1 season.
“ I remember the moment I had to tell Jo and Tom, it broke my heart. I regretted it, obviously. When they showed me the film, I was like, “That could have been me!” To tell the truth, it still hasn’t happened… »
If he still does not appear on the screen in a major film, Lewis Hamilton is still collaborating with Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer since he is one of the producers of the big budget project Formula 1. Starring none other than Brad Pitt, this highly anticipated racing film is expected to be released sometime next year.
“My point of view was that the film had to be completely authentic,” says Lewis Hamilton. My job mainly consisted of avoiding improbable things. » Like the transition of the emblematic driver of a team to a rival at the very end of his career (sorry)?