Glen Powell threw up preparing for high-octane aviation scenes in
Top Gun: Maverick
Glen Powell said he threw up during a rambunctious sequence as he got acclimated to flying in jets in preparation for Top Gun: Maverick.
The actor, who’s 33, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday. He said that he was seated in the back of a jet when the pilot made multiple upside-down moves through Star Wars Canyon, California.
The Austin native described the sequence of events to Kimmel that led to the stomach-turning incident.
‘We’re flying like 100 feet off the ground – 500 knots,’ said Powell, who plays Hangman in the forthcoming summer blockbuster film. ‘Weaving through these canyons, you invert, you re-orient, you come back, you drop a bomb, you pull up, seven and a half Gs.
And you’re doing it over and over and over. And at one point, I was like, “OK, I’m gonna puke.”‘
‘I’m like the actor in the back of the plane, I didn’t want to be that guy,’ said Powell, who has also been seen in films such as Hidden Figures, Everybody Wants Some!! and The Dark Knight Rises.
The Austin, Texas native described the sequence of events to Kimmel that led to the stomach-turning incident
Powell said that he was seated in the back of a jet when the pilot made multiple upside-down moves through California’s Star Wars Canyon
Powell reassured the pilot he would be ‘good’ and ‘ready to rock and roll,’ at which point he could no longer hold back.
Powell said the pilot could not hear him because he’d taken off his mask, which had a microphone in it.
‘As I’m violently puking in this bag, I just hear in my comms, “Well buddy, if you’re ready to rock and roll, let’s rock and roll.” And he just inverts the plane, pulls down.
Powell said that he wound up ‘violently’ vomiting after he couldn’t take the nausea any further.
Powell, who has also been seen in films such as Hidden Figures, Everybody Wants Some!! and The Dark Knight Rises, plays Hangman in the forthcoming summer blockbuster film
Powell concluded: ‘That’s what it’s like to make Top Gun.’
Top Gun: Maverick, which features Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer and Jon Hamm, hits theaters May 27.
