Sioux Falls dentist Chris Dickes appears as ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ extra
A dentist from Sioux Falls is an additional on this summer time’s blockbuster, “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Chris Dickes, 44, is a U.S. Navy veteran and seems within the bar scene within the newest High Gun film, which is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 to this point.
However, how did he go from an skilled on brushing tooth, to a brush with fame?
All of it occurred when Dickes and his household had been visiting Disneyland in California in 2018, not too removed from the place he was stationed from 2005-2009 on the coast on an plane service. He known as up an outdated Navy buddy to see if he and his household would be capable to go to him whereas they had been on trip.
Dickes’ outdated Navy buddy advised him he was engaged on logistics for actors and personnel concerned with a brand new movie that might be capturing quickly, and the buddy requested Dickes if he wished to be an additional.
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That subsequent day, Dickes went right down to his outdated base and signed some paperwork to receives a commission for the upcoming “Top Gun” movie.
He was paid $150 for his day of capturing, he recalled, and he stated he would not contemplating being in a 3rd Top Gun movie “for the best worth,” he laughed.
“We’ve been ready on this for some time now,” Dickes stated of the expertise on-set for sooner or later in 2018, and of the discharge of the movie.
The bar he’s in for his scene mimics the one on the bottom that he’s used to, Dickes stated, however the one on base is “a lot smaller.”
His scene begins with Tom Cruise strolling by means of the again door, the place Dickes and different extras had been standing shut by.
“He would stroll proper by me,” Dickes stated. “In between takes, I used to be in a small group of individuals the place (Cruise) was standing, and he made some small speak with us. He requested how we had been doing, and stated, ‘We’re going to get by means of this.’ It was tremendous cool.”
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Cruise meant “getting by means of” the a number of takes it took to get the scene excellent, Dickes stated, including that he grew to become an “skilled pantomime” by that time as he pretended to have a dialog with a whole stranger within the scene to make the bar look extra lifelike.
Dickes stated he tried to “play it cool” as Cruise glided by him. Dickes additionally walked out alongside Jennifer Connelly, who performs Penny Benjamin, at one level throughout capturing.
He and his household and associates celebrated the discharge of the film by renting out one of many native film theaters for a non-public screening of the movie, then internet hosting a giant celebration afterwards.
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The primary “High Gun” film was influential in Dickes’ childhood, he stated, as he utilized for a naval scholarship after highschool that paid for his years of dental college at Creighton College and allowed him to serve for 4 years after college.
“I’ve the primary film just about memorized,” he stated. “It’s a really instrumental film for me, to simply be a part of the Navy and be part of the service as an officer.”
