Exclusive: Top Gun: Maverick starGregTarzanDavis reveals what it's really like working with Tom Cruise
May 26, 2022 - 22:35 BST Rebecca Lewis In 2017 Greg 'Tarzan' Davis quit his job as an elementary school teacher in Louisiana to pursue his dream of acting. Five years on, he's about to hit the big screen alongside the biggest movie star in the world, Tom Cruise, in Top Gun: Maverick - and next year's Mission:Impossible 7.
"We spent a year together just training and learning from each other; we partied together, we traveled together, vacationed together, attended baby showers and weddings. We are so close knit."MORE: Tom Cruise praises 'very special scene' with Top Gun star Val Kilmer "We had an indication it was Top Gun," laughs Tarzan, sharing that he then had two auditions before undergoing a director callback session with Joseph Kosinski and"then I got a call saying Tom Cruise is watching the tape and that was the highlight of my career at that point - Tom watched me!".MORE: Kate Middleton and Prince George's behind-the-scenes video with Tom Cruise
"I love kids deeply and they are my heart, but I just felt that being in the classroom was not the thing I wanted to do," he says of those years after graduation."I didn't want to live with regret. So many people I know do jobs they aren't proud of, and I did not want to be the person saying, 'shoulda coulda woulda'."
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