Is Gooses kid in Top Gun 2?

Goose and Maverick forever! OG Top Gun star Anthony Edwards revealed what he really thought about Top Gun: Maverick — and whether Tom Cruise ran anything by him beforehand.

“People had a certain feeling in the original one and that one [Top Gun: Maverick] does exactly what it felt like seeing it the first time, only more so,” Edwards, 59, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, June 9, at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. “As I said to Tom, ‘Mission accomplished.’ They did it.”

Is Gooses kid in Top Gun 2?

Anthony Edwards at ‘Take Me Out’ Opening Night in New York on April 4, 2022. Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

The California native, who played Nick “Goose” Bradshaw in the 1986 film alongside Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, added: “They really did though. It’s a lot of work that went into that. It had the feel, it had the tone, it had what people wanted.”

Fans of the original action film remember Edwards’ playful character, who is Maverick’s copilot in school, tragically dies during a training exercise when they are forced to abandon the jet. While Goose didn’t magically come back to life in the sequel, his memory lived on in a variety of ways.

In addition to photos of Goose and Maverick’s flashbacks of their time together at Top Gun training, the character’s son, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), plays a major role in the 2022 film.

“It’s the biggest movie that I’m in that I never had to show up for a day of work, so it was fun,” Edwards joked on Thursday.

In Top Gun, Goose was married to Carole (Meg Ryan), but she was also missing from the new movie as it’s revealed she died off screen. Maverick’s No. 1 competitor, however, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer), did make a cameo.

In the latest film, Maverick is called to train a new group of the Navy’s top pilots more than 30 years after he graduated at the top of his class from the elite academy. Some of the new characters include Natasha “Phoenix” Trace (Monica Barbaro), Jake “Hangman” Seresin (Glen Powell) and Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia (Danny Ramirez).

Edwards revealed that while he didn’t attend the world premiere for Top Gun: Maverick, 59-year-old Cruise made sure he got a special preview of it.

“If you do the first movie, you’re lucky enough,” the ER alum explained on Thursday, adding, “I was lucky enough that Tom called me up. He screened it for me in person.”

He continued: “So, we actually saw it at the Dolby screening room here in New York with the best sound ever, and there was just, like, eight of us watching it. It was fantastic.”

Top Gun: Maverick is in theaters now.

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Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller explained how he approached playing the son of Goose. In the new film, his callsign is Rooster, an homage to Maverick's fallen partner in the first movie. However, getting to character was about more than mimicking Anthony Edwards' performance in the mega-hit. Teller sat down with Comicbook.com's Chris Killian to speak about Top Gun: Maverick. The actor came clean about how important the role of Goose was to the original film. It feels like Maverick's wingman is still a go-to reference for theater-goers of a certain age. Teller acknowledges the pop-cultural impact of that performance by Edwards. However, Rooster had to be his own character. So, there wasn't any obsessive rewinding of Top Gun to get the affectations just right. Check out what he had to say down below.

"I think I'd seen it enough," Teller began. "I knew what Goose represented and that people talk about Goose today. And Anthony, that character will stick with him forever. It's such a popular character in such a positive way. Everybody wants a Goose, everyone could use a Goose in their lives. So, I tried to carry that for sure."

Paramount release a new description of the action in Top Gun: Maverick: "After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him." 

"When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: 'Rooster,' the son of Maverick's late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka 'Goose.' Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it."

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What happened to Goose's son in Top Gun?

He died in similar circumstances to how Goose does in Top Gun when he had to eject from his plane after an engine fault.

Is Rooster Goose's son?

Actor. Lieutenant Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw is a naval aviator trained on the F/A-18E Super Hornet and a graduate of TOPGUN. He is the son of LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw and Carole Bradshaw. He was about 2 years old when his father died.

Who is the daughter in Top Gun 2?

Lyliana Wray as Amelia Benjamin Amelia Benjamin is Penny's daughter. She loves her mother and has a good rapport with Maverick. With the stranger nature of Penny and Maverick's relationship, Amelia simply wants what's best for her mother.

Did Goose have kids?

He's an incredible actor,' " says Kosinski. An emotional story around Goose's son, pilot Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, was born.