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The signature volleyball scene featuring a glistening Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer has remained a pop culture fascination for 36 years.

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00:00An iconic scene in the original Top Gun almost got director Tony Scott fired.

00:05This episode of THR News is brought to you by Euphoria, for your Emmy consideration.

00:10Do you remember this shirtless volleyball scene in the 1986 classic?

00:13I mean, how could you not?

00:22According to one of the film's editors, Chris Levenzon, that scene was scripted as a real game.

00:27They kept score and everything, and Tony shot it like a commercial, and they were angry.

00:32Fellow editor Billy Weber added,

00:34The studio was so pissed off.

00:35The head of production, Charlie McGuire, he said,

00:38I'm going to fire him, because he spent a whole day shooting this scene.

00:50Weber went on to say,

00:52And then of course, it turns out it's one of the most famous scenes in a movie.

00:55A similar scene that appears in the new sequel, Top Gun Maverick,

00:59and features the film's stars playing football shirtless on the beach,

01:02has enamored social media,

01:03leaving the internet, for lack of a better word,

01:05thirsting over actors like Miles Teller.

01:08You think up there you're dead?

01:10Believe me.

01:14For more from THR's interview with the original Top Gun's editors,

01:18go to THR.com.

01:19For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

01:25Bye.