During the same interview, Jay Ellis admitted that the daily routines surrounding the schedule for filming "Top Gun: Maverick" mirrored his childhood in a lot of ways.
"I think I even found myself, with the exception of one night when we went out, I think I found myself very much being back on the kind of clock that I was on when I was a kid," Ellis said. "You're up at this time, you do this thing, you hear the horns in the morning. There were all these things that started to kick in. For me, it was just this immense pride and also the responsibility of wanting to portray men and women who sacrifice their lives and time away from their family every single day to protect this country."
So while it's easy to imagine that such routines are something of an adjustment for other actors who were part of "Top Gun: Maverick," for Ellis, it was much closer to a feeling of coming home for the first time in years. It'll be interesting to see if Ellis as Payback makes any appearances in future "Top Gun" installments — should they ever come to be.
