Jennifer Connelly had a crippling fear of flying before Top Gun Dailymail.com Reporter
Jennifer Connelly was scared of airplanes before filming Top Gun: Maverick.
The 50-year-old actress admitted she was afraid to tell her co-star Tom Cruise about her fear of flying and only signed on to the movie at first because her character was not supposed to have any flight scenes.
Jennifer - who plays the sequel s female lead, a single mother who runs a local bar near the Navy base - told chat show host Graham Norton: I was actually afraid to tell Tom at the time that I had only just recently talked myself out of a crippling fear of flying.