Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller reveals that his wife was not a fan of his mustache in the film. Top Gun: Maverick premiered on May 27, 2022, and is the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun. The film follows Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise), a U.S. Navy test pilot doing his best to avoid promotions that might restrict him. However, when he is tapped to train a group of young aviators, he must confront his past before he can lead them to carry out an urgent mission.
Maverick's past is difficult for him to forget, especially when one of the young pilots he is training is Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Teller). Bradshaw is the son of the late Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, who was Maverick's best friend in the first Top Gun film. However, Goose dies while flying with Maverick and, although it wasn't his fault, Maverick struggles with guilt after his friend's death. Now, in Top Gun: Maverick, he is face-t0-face with Goose's son and struggles with how to protect Rooster while honoring his friend's memory.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Teller revealed there was one aspect of the sequel that his wife hated: the mustache that Teller donned for his role (as well as the mullet he would follow it up with for his latest project, Spiderhead). Teller explained that his mustache and mullet have actually surprisingly gained him a bit of TikTok fame. Despite this, though, Teller says, "my wife is not a fan of either. The mullet or the mustache."
Unfortunately, even after Maverick wrapped, Teller's wife had to put up with the mullet for a while longer as Teller filmed Spiderhead. However, not everyone is as appalled by Teller's mullet and mustache, as some fans have actually taken a liking to it. In fact, he received some very unexpected love from Top Gun: Maverick viewers specifically for his mustache. The facial hair led him to garner a large TikTok following, as fans dub the platform TellerTok. Still, though, Teller's mustache hasn't quite yet attained the level of fame that Chris Evans' mustache in The Gray Man is currently enjoying.
It's always fun to gauge the different reactions when an actor or actress changes up their style a bit. Viewers, though, tend to have a particular fascination when a man who tends to be clean-shaven debuts a stylish mustache for a film. The appearance can sometimes be a bit unexpected for some viewers, and if casual audience members can notice something is different so easily, it must stick out even more for those who know the actor personally. Hopefully, though, the cinematography, aerial shots, and stunning flight missions in Top Gun: Maverick made up for Teller's wife having to see him with a mullet and mustache.
Source: Entertainment Tonight