Jon Hamm Admits He Would Have Done Anything for Role in 'Top Gun: Maverick'
Jon Hamm had no problem not being the 'star' of the 2022 action film Top Gun: Maverick. On the heels of his massive success on the AMC drama series Mad Men, the actor told GQ magazine that he just wanted to work on projects that were meaningful to him.
'I knew it would be unlikely to have another experience like Mad Men,' Hamm told the outlet in a May 2025 interview. 'And I was okay with that. Some people don't even get the one. So I got one. I got all the awards I needed. [After it ended] I was like, 'I'm good.' I just want to work with people I find compelling.'
Hamm also revealed that he did what he had to do to get cast in the 2022 Top Gun sequel. 'That was an interesting one, because there's no mistaking who's the star of that movie,' he said of the film's lead, Tom Cruise. 'I saw the original film when I was 14 years old. So, I would've f---ing made coffee on that set.'
'My agents were like, 'I don't know—it's not a very big part. Do you really want to do this?'' the actor added. 'And I go, 'Dude, it's Top Gun 2. Like, what?' That movie meant a lot to me personally. I told them, 'If you guys f--- this deal, you're all fired.''
In the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, Hamm played Vice Admiral Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson opposite Cruise's Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell. The film, released in May 2022, was a massive box office hit, grossing $1.48 billion worldwide, per CNBC.
Cruise has not ruled out a third run for the Top Gun franchise. In May 2025, he told the Today Show Australia he had several ideas in the works. 'We're thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what's possible. It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick, so all of these things we're working on, we're discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick,' the actor said.
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