I avoided Top Gun for 40 years – here’s why I was wrong

Top Gun celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (Picture: Shutterstock)

Early on in Tony Scott’s 1986 classic Top Gun, Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazanskycorners his brash, overconfident rival.

‘Maverick,’ Iceman (played by the late, great Val Kilmer) tells his fellow airman during a charged exchange. ‘It’s not your flying, it’s your attitude.’

When it comes to Tom Cruise, it’s a sentiment I can sympathise with.

I was born the same year as Top Gun first released in cinemas, into a world in which the Cruiser was already a massive star.

From then on, he always unsettled me, between Read Entire Article