Mission impossible

LOS ANGELES: Tom Cruise found it a “daunting task” making Top Gun: Maverick. The 59-year-old star reprises his role as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the sequel to Top Gun but Tom was uncertain about revisiting the movie that made him a superstar.

He said: “Fans all over the world for decades have been saying please do another one, and I was like, I don’t know how to do that. And I would go home and think about how to approach it, so to hear about how audiences feel about it … I’m so excited for them.”

He said that releasing the movie on a streaming service was “never an option” despite delays caused by Covid-19.