Tom Cruise, an A-list actor with the world’s greatest personal revenue record, always gets the crowd going, especially when he’s surrounded by stunning female co-stars. Among them, a lot of spectators still recall and were moved by his performance with Kelly McGillis in the 1986 film Top Gun, which launched the career of the male celebrity. But now that many years have gone, both performers’ strikingly different looks and careers make this picture simply a lovely memory.

Images depicting Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis’s current looks in particular are stirring some controversy. The pair was a “visual explosion” in 1986. makes the viewer want to cling to it. But their current appearances are very different from each other after almost 40 years.

The audience was saddened by the Top Gun couple’s “then and now” snapshot.

Since Tom Cruise is still actively filming, he maintains a stylish image. Tom Cruise, 61, still does action and dangerous parts on his own without the need for stunts, showcasing his youthfulness. The greatest testament to Tom Cruise’s abilities is the fact that he is still producing Top Gun and Mission Impossible sequels.

Tom Cruise has maintained his style for almost 40 years.

But Kelly McGillis, her female co-star, is no longer the “pink shadow”; instead, she is the most stunning and seductive person imaginable. As a result of aging, the actress has “gone physical” recently, exhibiting decline. Many viewers were taken aback, finding it hard to believe that these were all the same person—that she was the same female actress who had once made a big impression on them in that year’s Top Gun. Currently, McGillis is no longer active in art, nor participated in the recent billion-dollar blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and had a reunion with Tom Cruise.