What happens when you can’t “hold it in” during a flight? Bob reveals what it was like to use the restroom during the filming of “Top Gun: Maverick.

Last Updated on 08/21/2023 by てんしょく飯

Top Gun: Maverick” was actually filmed aboard a fighter jet. What did he do if he needed to go to the restroom during filming? Lewis Pullman, who played Bob, revealed the backstory.

Lewis Pullman reveals the secret story behind the filming of “Top Gun: Maverick.

Produced by and starring Tom Cruise, the 2022 film “Top Gun: Maverick” was a huge hit worldwide, including Japan. One of the major attractions of this film, which has become a social phenomenon in Japan, is that, as is typical of Tom Cruise’s films, he has pursued “realism” in every aspect of his acting. One of the major attractions of the film is that, as is typical of Tom Cruise’s films, every aspect of the acting was made to be as “realistic” as possible.

The plane used for the filming was an F-18, a two-seater fighter jet, but there is one question that is interesting to note here. The filming must have lasted a long time, but what did they do if they had to go to the restroom in the plane, where there was almost no space to sit down? According to Lewis Pullman, who played Bob in the film, if he had to go to the bathroom, he would do so “on the plane.

The way he did it was to use a “bag. Lewis revealed to Vanity Fair: “We were in the back of the calf, and I was in the back of the calf. We had two bags of gelatin powder attached to the back of our calves. （We had two bags of gelatin powder attached to the backs of our calves, so that they would harden (when urine flowed) and if they leaked, it would be disastrous.

Lewis brought two bags with him and used them whenever he needed to go to the bathroom. There were times when he actually used them. I used both bags quite a bit,” he confided.

In an interview with Screen Rant, Jay Ellis, who played Payback in the film, also spoke about the bathroom situation during filming, revealing that he brought his own toilet bag on board and said, “I thought if I flew another hour, I would pee. So I said, ‘Excuse me, I have to pee. Can we somehow go back and stop at the base for a bit?’ The pilot told me, “No, you can’t. You have to go back to the base. The pilot said, ‘No. I’m going to continue. I’ll keep going,'” he revealed.