TOP GUN: MAVERICK Star Monica Barbaro Is Willing To Wait For "Phoenix" Return In TOP GUN 3 (Exclusive)

TOP GUN: MAVERICK Star Monica Barbaro Is Willing To Wait For "Phoenix" Return In TOP GUN 3 (Exclusive)

Discussing her role in Paramount+'s At Midnight, Top Gun: Maverick star Monica Barbaro shares her thoughts on possible plans for a third Top Gun movie and makes it clear she's willing to wait for it...

By JoshWilding - Feb 08, 2023 07:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: ActioNewz.com

In Paramount+'s At Midnight, Alejandro (Diego Boneta) is a hotel manager. Sophie (Monica Barbaro) is a movie star. He's focused on opening his own hotel. She’s trying to focus on shooting her new superhero film. But she catches her co-star and boyfriend (Anders Holm) cheating.

Fate strikes when the shoot brings them all to Alejandro’s hotel in Mexico, and despite their radically different lives, Alejandro and Sophie begin to secretly meet...At Midnight. 

Of course, many of you will know Barbaro best for her role as Lieutenant Natasha "Phoenix" Trace in 2022's biggest movie, Top Gun: Maverick. With Tom Cruise still hard at work on the next Mission: Impossible movies, there's been no official word on plans for more Top Gun, but everyone else involved seems keen to make a threequel happen. 

We can now add Barbaro to that list, something the actor made clear when we spoke to her about At Midnight earlier this week.

"I would absolutely love to revisit Pheonix and get to be in her shoes again," she tells us in the video above. "To the extent I feel they should make another movie right away? I think their patience with this particular franchise…I really respect that they’ve taken their time and been very intentional in their decisions with it, choosing not to make a second one until they had the technology and a story they really liked and wanted to dive into."

"There’s something kind of beautiful about 30 years going by, and using that nostalgia but also making a very, very different movie from the original…so, I’ll respect the time if that’s what’s required!"

We certainly hope it won't take another 30 years to make a new Top Gun movie, but Barbaro is right that the lengthy wait played a huge role in the sequel's success. Recapturing the same magic three or four years from now would be no easy feat, though we're sure moviegoers would be keen to see Maverick's story continue. 

There is, of course, always a chance the franchise will expand with a spin-off focusing on the younger cast, though as Cruise is synonymous with Top Gun, he'd at least have to show up for a cameo! For now, we'll have to wait and see what happens. 

At Midnight begins streaming on Paramount+ this Friday, February 10.


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DocSpock
DocSpock - 2/8/2023, 7:05 PM


She is a cutie. But she has a naughty look in her eyes.

She needs a good spanking. Okay. I'm on it.

philinterrupted
philinterrupted - 2/8/2023, 7:06 PM
@DocSpock - I’m sure she appreciates your review
DocSpock
DocSpock - 2/8/2023, 7:22 PM
@philinterrupted -

I do what I can. What can I say? I'm a giver.

OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 7:55 PM
@DocSpock - You're also married, man.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 2/8/2023, 8:00 PM
@OriginalGusto1 -

Yeah. My wife says no to all my great ideas. I hear "NO" more than a 2 year old kid or a new puppy.

OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 8:02 PM
@DocSpock - I don't know her. I assume she's a [frick]ing saint, putting up with you and all. But, I'm guessing "No" is a constant in her vocabulary.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 8:04 PM
Side note...My PS5 arrived. Holy [frick], The Last of Us is fricking pheneomenal.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 8:05 PM
I'm seriously questioning my past blind loyalty to XBox.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 2/8/2023, 8:12 PM
@OriginalGusto1 - I'm tempted to put a Meghan Trainor "no" gif in her but I have more self-control than that lol.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 8:13 PM
@FilmGuy7878 - Do it! Do it!
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 2/8/2023, 8:20 PM
@OriginalGusto1 - Tbh I've never posted a gif or picture on here before. How do you do it? I've only been on here since last October, can you tell lol
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 9:09 PM
@FilmGuy7878 - You copy/paste the gif/jpg link...but, delete the "s" in https.
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 2/8/2023, 9:10 PM
@OriginalGusto1 - sometimes you leave the "https", depends on the link.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 2/9/2023, 8:07 AM
@OriginalGusto1 - Ah thank you
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 2/8/2023, 7:29 PM
Of course she would lol
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 2/8/2023, 7:45 PM
Huntress or Renee Montoya right there.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 2/8/2023, 7:57 PM
What comic book movie is this from?
Kadara
Kadara - 2/8/2023, 8:22 PM
@JobinJ - Phoenix....from the great comic book (checks notes)..Top Gun movie.
Origame
Origame - 2/9/2023, 7:01 AM
@JobinJ - haha, but the site has long since been about comic book movies and any films or TV shows that could interest a comic book fan.

The last of us has been on here, and I don't remember hearing anyone say "it wasn't based on a comic".

And before you say the last of us had comic adaptations, so did top gun

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=40097579
mountainman
mountainman - 2/8/2023, 8:27 PM
She was solid, like the entire cast. I would absolutely be down for a 3rd if it’s as good as the 2nd one was.
ImBatman4realz
ImBatman4realz - 2/8/2023, 8:35 PM
Josh is always hilarious to watch in his interviews because he asks such oddly specific and leading questions … also what was with his interview getting hijacked at the end?! 😂
NGFB
NGFB - 2/8/2023, 9:40 PM
She's yummy. I'd watch her paint a dresser.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/9/2023, 3:54 AM
If they ever do a Top Gun 3, I hope it has the six main cadets (why were there even 6 others?) including her as the lead. She and especially Powell and Teller were great.
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