How Much Do You Really Know About 'Top Gun'?

This year, Top Gun celebrates its 30th anniversary, which is the perfect excuse to rewatch the movie, especially if you’re on a plane, considering a new pair of aviator sunglasses, or training for beach volleyball season.

But even if you’ve seen the movie a million times, there’s plenty of trivia you probably don’t know. Trivia that even the cast and crew of Top Gun might not know.

For example, both Sean Penn and Tom Hanks were considered for the role of Maverick. And his love interest, Charlie, was almost played by Sarah Jessica Parker.

As for that iconic theme song, Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone,” the bands Toto and REO Speedwagon (both ’80s treasures in their own right) were approached before Loggins was.

Watch the video below to see how producer Jerry Bruckheimer got Tom Cruise to star in ‘Top Gun’: