Lady Gagaโs โTop Gun: Maverickโ music video for the ballad โHold My Handโ has Tom Cruise crying. โHold My Hand,โ according to Cruise, is crucial to the โemotional coreโ of the โTop Gunโ sequel, which hits theaters on May 27.
Despite Pete โMaverickโ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) flying high once more, the death of Goose (Anthony Edwards) haunts the โTop Gunโ movie.
Lady Gagaโs original song โHold My Handโ will be featured in the sequel to the hit 1986 film โTop Gun: Maverick,โ which will be released in theaters on May 27. The melancholy music video for the song was unveiled on May 6 by the โHouse of Gucciโ star ahead of the Cannes premiere of โTop Gun: Maverickโ in a few weeks.
Gaga was shot singing the powerful track at an airstrip in the desert by director Joseph Kosinski. Gooseโs terrible death is revisited in flashbacks from the original film, directed by Tony Scott, while Cruiseโs Maverick comforts him. Maverick is now preparing a detachment of TOPGUN grads, including Gooseโs son Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller) aka Rooster, for a perilous, specialized mission 30 years after the original.
โI see that youโre bleeding / You donโt need to show me again,โ the songโs lyrics say. But if you desire to, Iโll accompany you through this life / I wonโt let go until the end.โ
โWhen I wrote this song for โTop Gun: Maverick,โ I didnโt even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the filmโs heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world weโve been living in,โ Gaga, who also contributed to the โTop Gun: Maverickโ score along with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, and Harold Faltermeyer,ย tweeted.
โI wanted to make music into a song where we share our profound yearning to both be understood and attempt to understand one other โ a longing to be close when we feel so far away and an ability to appreciate lifeโs heroes,โ the Oscar winner for โA Star Is Bornโ stated. This song is a love letter to the globe written during and after a particularly difficult period.โ
On โThe Late Late Show,โ Cruise applauded Gagaโs passion to the film, adding that the song โopened up the whole movieโ and grounded the epic pictureโs โemotional core.โ
โThe song sheโd composed just fit right in and became the underlying score and heartbeat of our movie,โ Cruise explained.
