{"id":268494,"date":"2022-05-23T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=268494"},"modified":"2022-05-23T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:54:21","slug":"tom-cruise-says-landing-top-gun-role-was-life-changing-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/tom-cruise-says-landing-top-gun-role-was-life-changing-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise says landing \u2018Top Gun\u2019 role was life-changing for him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollywood star Tom Cruise says landing the role of Navy pilot Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell in \u2018Top Gun\u2019 was \u201clife-changing.\u201d<br>The Hollywood star had always dreamt of being either a pilot or an actor growing up, and when he could combine both careers in one film, it was a big thrill for him, reports aceshowbiz.com. The 59-year-old actor told HELLO! magazine: \u201cAll I ever wanted to be was a pilot or an actor, so \u2018Top Gun\u2019 was a huge moment in so many respects, including my passion for aviation.\u201d<br>He further gushed, \u201cIt was life-changing for me.\u201d<br>\u201cI got to actually fly in an F-14 jet which was a dream come true, and play a character I loved in Maverick,\u201d Cruise shared.<br>For the latest movie in the blockbuster series, \u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019, he got to do more plane stunts than ever before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Tom Cruise says landing the role of Navy pilot Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell in \u2018Top Gun\u2019 was \u201clife-changing.\u201dThe Hollywood star had always dreamt of being either a pilot or an actor growing up, and when he could combine both careers in one film, it was a big thrill for him, reports aceshowbiz.com. The 59-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":268502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}