Miles Teller says he got sick on the set of 'Top Gun: Maverick' because there was jet fuel in his blood, and Tom Cruise had a perfect response

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Miles Teller says he got sick on the set of 'Top Gun: Maverick' because there was jet fuel in his blood, and Tom Cruise had a perfect response
Miles Teller in "Top Gun: Maverick."Paramount
  • Miles Teller said he got sick while shooting "Top Gun: Maverick."
  • He learned he had jet fuel in his blood.
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Miles Teller couldn't wait to brag to Tom Cruise about what he went through to shoot the realistic dogfight scenes in "Top Gun: Maverick."

Teller revealed on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" on Tuesday that he started feeling sick immediately after filming one of the airplane scenes for the box-office hit.

"I'm just like, 'I'm not feeling too good,'" Teller explained to Meyers. "And I was really hot, and I just started itching like crazy. So I get out of the jet, and I'm just covered in hives, like, head to toe."

Teller was taken to a doctor and had a blood analysis taken. He said he then went home and took an oatmeal bath to reduce the hives.

The next day, he got the results back from the blood test.

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Miles Teller says he got sick on the set of 'Top Gun: Maverick' because there was jet fuel in his blood, and Tom Cruise had a perfect response
(L-R) Miles Teller and Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival screening of "Top Gun: Maverick."Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Getty Images
"My bloodwork comes back, and I have flame-retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in my blood," Teller said.

Thankfully, Teller recovered and was allowed to go back to work. He couldn't wait to tell Cruise, an actor known for incurring a fair share of injuries due to all the stunts he's done.

"I go to set the next day, and Tom's like, 'So, how did it go, Miles what did they find?'" Teller recalled to Meyers. "I was like, 'Well, Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.' And without even skipping a beat, Tom just goes, 'Yeah, I was born with it, kid.'"

"Top Gun: Maverick" is the long-awaited sequel to Cruise's hit 1986 movie in which he plays "Maverick" Mitchell, a hot-shot Navy pilot. In the sequel, Maverick is now an instructor and one of the pilots he's teaching is "Rooster" Bradshaw, played by Teller. Rooster is the son of Maverick's late friend "Goose" Bradshaw.

"Top Gun: Maverick" is currently playing in theaters.

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