Tom Cruise Takes to the Skies – Pilots ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Jet During MTV Movie & TV Awards!

Tom Cruise continues to outperform himself!

At the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday, the actor from “Top Gun: Maverick” won an award for best performance in a movie for his part in the 2022 movie. He gave his acceptance speech in a pre-recorded video that showed him flying a plane.

With the golden popcorn statuette strapped into the passenger seat of the plane, Cruise thanked viewers for choosing for him and said, “I love you, I love entertaining you.”

To be sure, a Paramount official told CNN on Sunday that Cruise did, in fact, fly the plane himself. She also said that Cruise’s plane, a P-51 Mustang, was the same one he flew in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Cruise is known for doing his own stunts. Last year, he thanked moviegoers for going to see the blockbuster sequel in a video that showed him free-falling from a plane. The video was shared to his verified Instagram account.

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Steven Spielberg called Tom Cruise the hero of movies. At the end of his speech on Sunday, Cruise said, “See you at the movies.”

The sequel to the 1986 hit “Top Gun,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” was the highest-grossing movie of 2022. This was after years of trouble at the theaters caused by the pandemic. It was also Tom Cruise’s first movie to make a billion dollars.

Overall, Cruise flying a plane to accept an award gives new meaning to what Miles Teller’s character Rooster says in “Top Gun: Maverick”: “It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot.”