He knows his way around a cockpit but Lewis Hamilton was gutted to have to put the brakes on becoming a fighter pilot alongside Tom Cruise in box office hit Top Gun: Maverick.
F1 champ Lewis contacted the Hollywood star, begging for a part in the sequel to the 80s classic, after they met while Tom was filming in the UK previously. He tells Vanity Fair: “I said, ‘I don’t care what role it is. I’ll even sweep something, be a cleaner in the back.’ ”
Tom, “one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet,” according to Lewis, offered for him to be one of his co-fighters.
