"Top Gun: Maverick" is one of the most highly anticipated movies of the year, and with good reason that's true, Gail, that is true, the high-flying sequel follows navy pilot Pete Mitchell, nicknamed Maverick as you might know.

As he trains a new generation of pilots for a very special mission, one of them is called "Hangman" played by actor Glen Powell, he previously starred in the oscar-nominated film "Hidden Figures" and Netflix set it up.

In this clip, a very confident "Hangman" talks to the other elite pilots about who is going to be the team leader of this special mission.

Bradshaw, as I live and breathe⁽¹⁾. - Hangman, You look… good. - Well, I am good, Rooster, I'm very good. In fact, I am too good to be true⁽²⁾.

So, anybody know what this special detachment is all about? - No, mission's a mission. They don't confront me. What I want to know, Who's gonna be team leader? And which one of y'all has what it takes to follow me?

You turned this role down when Tom Cruise called you initially? - I did. - Why? and what changed your mind? - You know I originally auditioned for Miles Teller's role which was the son of goose.

And then the role wasn't that great on the page, and then I got to sit down with Tom who kind of told me his approach to making movies.

And I said "goes all right!" "look dude, I know you don't want to do the movie, what kind of career do you want to have?" I was like "dude, you, man".

He's like "well do you know how I do that?" I was like "you choose great roles." he goes "no I choose great movies and I make the roles great."

And so we got to basically make this role together which was kind of a dream come true. - Yeah did Tom have an influence on you? and I only asked that because now we hear that you've actually gone and gotten your pilot's license.

Was that something you had thought about doing ever before? - I feel like I've always wanted to get my pilot's license, it's always like on your bucket list⁽³⁾.

I mean it's like something that just like for me like it's always like that spontaneous sense of adventure that you can just like pick up and fly anywhere anytime.

And because Tom put together this flight program where he literally, we were flying in the Extra 300, the Cessna, the L-39, the 18, we flew in all these different aircraft.

And I pretty much got all the hours I would need and I knew so much about aviation that I could just finish it up.

So those scenes are actually you? - Oh yeah, we're in the back of real F-18s this entire movie. - Were you afraid? - There's a couple moments.

No because the movie I have to say is amazing, I can't wait for American to see it, I can't wait for them to see you in it.

But were you afraid? I mean it's more to me than just a couple of moments when we look, half the time I didn't know what I was looking at, I just knew it was very scary.

It's you know we're trying to put audiences on like a serious thrill ride, that's why Tom was like "hey we gotta shoot this thing for real!"

There were days in which we were flying like 50 feet off the ground, 500 knots through canyons where I didn't tell my mom what I was doing that day. But overall I mean we're flying with the best pilots in the navy, so...