Jennifer Connelly campaigns for Tom Cruise to be nominated for the Oscars

For Jennifer Connelly, Tom Cruise, her co-star in

, "absolutely deserves" an Oscar nomination this year.

The actress, who interprets the character of Penelope Benjamin, the lover of Pete Mitchell, alias Maverick, expressed her admiration for the actor.

“He does an incredible job in the film.

He's amazing as a person and fantastic as an actor, and I think he's just perfect,” she told

.

And she really is full of praise for him: “He embodies this character so well and I think he absolutely deserves (an Oscar).

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Perfection

The 52-year-old star also praised the feature, which is "a really well done movie and it's really hard to make a movie like that".

Everything about

is successful for Jennifer Connelly, down to the way the relationships between the characters are developed.

In particular that of Maverick and Rooster, the son of Goose played by Miles Teller.

A dithyrambic opinion from Jennifer Connelly but which is shared by many.

This sequel to

grossed over $1.4 billion at the global box office.

It is the second highest-grossing film of 2022, and above all the highest-grossing of Tom Cruise's career.

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