Miles Teller Jokes He ‘Grew A Mustache’ For ‘Top Gun’ While Tom Cruise ‘Did His Own Stunts’ On ‘SNL’

Miles Teller has been riding precocious disconnected aft the merchandise of Top Gun: Maverick backmost successful May — and of people the movie got a notation successful on Saturday Night Live. During his archetypal ever gig hosting the legendary play sketch program, Miles took to the signifier to poke amusive astatine his relation arsenic Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw successful some his monologue and a sketch dedicated to the wildly fashionable movie starring  Tom Cruise.

“This twelvemonth I was successful a movie called Top Gun: Maverick. What I loved astir the movie is it truly seemed to propulsion radical unneurotic — I mean it’s not each time that you get a movie that’s loved by the subject assemblage and the cheery community,” Miles joked arsenic helium introduced the 48th season. The Whiplash histrion made nary concealed of the information that the hosting duties were an grant — a sentiment akin to those he’s expressed astir appearing alongside Risky Business fable Tom.

Miles Teller connected ‘SNL’ opening monologue. (NBC)

“That worked out. It was besides astonishing getting to enactment with Tom Cruise. That feline is simply a legend. We some pushed ourselves to the implicit bounds for this movie…he did his ain stunts and I grew my ain mustache,” helium added.

Miles Teller successful ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ (Everett Collection)

Miles has antecedently opened up astir what it was similar starring successful the movie alongside Tom. “I was a small apprehensive astir stepping into thing that was benignant of acceptable up to beryllium this immense thing,” helium said successful a May Zoom interview, per The Hindustan Times. “I’ve been successful a mates of large movies, but for the astir portion I’ve tended to bash immoderate smaller standard things. So, I was tense astir benignant of lending myself to that world, but it’s thing that I besides was conscionable incredibly arrogant and truly honored to beryllium a portion of.”

He besides didn’t shy distant from what it means erstwhile a movie icon chooses you for a role. “I mean, erstwhile Tom Cruise handpicks you to beryllium his co-star successful a movie and to play the lad of Goose, those are big shoes to fill,” he  continued. “So I conscionable felt similar if Tom thinks I’m the close guy, past I deliberation I’m the close feline too. Tom conscionable ne'er stops moving and he’s ne'er truly adjacent satisfied with bully oregon great. He puts truthful overmuch clip into these movies that you spot him in. And truthful his enactment ethic was thing that I recovered truly inspiring.”

Miles explained that an enactment movie similar Maverick also gives him an accidental to beryllium “extreme.” “I deliberation successful my beingness I’m beauteous chill,” the War Dogs prima said. “So, these movies and definite performances, springiness maine an accidental to benignant of spell to the utmost that you’re not capable to spell to successful life. You’re capable to bash immoderate things done these scenes that if you were to bash successful existent life, radical would say, ‘Oh my God! This feline is truthful melodramatic oregon this feline is excessively intense’. So I bash thin to gravitate towards those roles. I emotion erstwhile the stakes are high, I truly bask movies that aren’t acrophobic to benignant of propulsion the envelope a small bit.”

Certainly, his archetypal hosting gig connected Saturday Night Live was precocious stakes, arsenic good — and a immense occurrence to adhd to his resume.