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Since making her acting debut at the age of 11, Jennifer Connelly has commanded our attention in every role she’s taken on. Most recently, she starred in the most anticipated movie of 2022: Top Gun: Maverick, the hit sequel to the 1986 blockbuster. ‘Everything about this movie has been kind of extraordinary,’ she says. When the original premiered, she was 15, making a name for herself alongside David Bowie in Labyrinth. ‘The flying blew me away in Top Gun. Another thing that really stood out was just Tom Cruise in that jacket and on the motorcycle. It was iconic; it has nostalgic memories.

Set more than 30 years after the events of the first film, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell returns to the Top as the daughter of an admiral that Maverick got into some sort of romantic hot water with.

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