The official music video for Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand” features the Grammy Award winner as well as classic scenes from 1986’s Top Gun and new footage from the sequel. “Hold My Hand” was written for the much-anticipated sequel Top Gun: Maverick and the music video was directed by the film’s director, Joe Kosinski.
Lady Gaga wrote a series of tweets discussing penning “Hold My Hand” for Top Gun: Maverick:
“When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in. I’ve been working on it for years, perfecting it, trying to make it ours.
I’m so grateful to Tom and Hans and Joe for this opportunity—and it’s been a beautiful experience working with them. Me, BloodPop, Ben Rice and everyone else who worked on it with us are so excited to share it with you.
This song is a love letter to the world during and after a very hard time. I’ve wanted you to hear it for so long. And I’m so excited to give it to you on May 3. ‘Hold My Hand.'”
During an interview on The Late Late Show, Tom Cruise credited Lady Gaga with providing the “heartbeat” of the film.
“Obviously making the soundtrack and the music in every movie is very important and this one was very particular,” said Cruise. “There was just a sound and something we were looking for and it just wasn’t right. She presented her song to us and it just opened up the whole movie.”
Cruise stars as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Miles Teller (currently killing it in Paramount+’s The Offer) plays Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, son of Maverick’s late friend, Goose (Anthony Edwards). The cast also includes Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer.
Top Gun: Maverick will be released in theaters on May 27, 2022.
The plot, courtesy of Paramount Pictures:
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”
Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
