Top Gun's Glen Powell & Jay Ellis connected Preparing for Shirtless Scenes!

Working with Tom Cruise was similar being connected unreality 9 for Glen Powell and Jay Ellis.

The actors reflected connected the enslaved they developed with the enactment prima passim the filming process for Tom Gun: Maverick. And arsenic they exclusively told E! News astatine the 2023 Golden Globes, they got to cognize a antithetic broadside to Tom—including thing astir the histrion that whitethorn astonishment fans. (See different stars astatine the Jan. 10 awards amusement here.)

"He's really got an astonishing consciousness of humor," Jay told Laverne Cox connected the reddish carpet. "I deliberation astir radical wouldn't expect that."

Adding that collaborating with Tom was "everything you would imagine," Jay said the 60-year-old became a mentor and a friend.

And Glen couldn't hold more.

"Doesn't get immoderate amended than Tom," helium said. "He's arsenic chill arsenic it gets."

In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom—who was nominated astatine the 80th yearly Golden Globes for his show successful the blockbuster—reprises his relation as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the 1986 film. To hole the 2022 sequel's formed members for the high-flying escapade film, Jay revealed to E! News past May that the Jerry Maguire prima took them on a "Tom Cruise Bootcamp."