Jennifer Connelly makes rare red carpet appearance with eldest son Kai, 24, at Top Gun: Maverick premiere

Jennifer Connelly and Kai Dugan attend the premiere of the motion picture drama Top Gun: Maverick.
It was a household affair, as Jennifer Connelly attended the star-studded High Gun premiere with eldest son Kai (Image: Jim Ruymen/UPI/REX/Shutterstock)

Jennifer Connelly made a uncommon crimson carpet look along with her 24-year-old son Kai Dugan in a single day, as they took within the mighty High Gun: Maverick premiere.

The actress, who shares eldest son Kai with former accomplice, photographer David Dugan, completely shone on the movie premiere, because the pair had been joined by Jennifer’s husband Paul Bettany.

Jennifer, 51, welcomed Kai throughout her romance with David two years earlier than assembly Paul, 50, on the set of 2001 movie A Lovely Thoughts.

Strutting the crimson carpet as a trio in San Diego on Wednesday, Jennifer wore a resplendent gold Louis Vuitton robe, whereas Paul was suited and booted and Kai sported a slick leather-based jacket. Very on High Gun level, we should say.

Making fairly the doorway becoming for a movie showcasing army horsepower, the household arrived collectively on the famed USS Halfway plane service – which was practically as spectacular as lead actor Tom Cruise’s entrance, as he was choppered in on a helicopter.

On this event, although, he didn’t fly it himself.

 Kai Dugan, cast member Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany attend the premiere of the motion picture drama Top Gun: Maverick.
Right here with Paul Bettany, sure, Jennifer Connelly has a 24-year-old son (Image: Jim Ruymen/UPI/REX/Shutterstock)

Jennifer and former accomplice David Dugan in 1997 (Image: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photographs)

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Kai, right here with Jennifer, in 2013, has largely remained out of the highlight (Image: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Photographs)

Talking on the anticipated premiere, Tom stated it had been a case of ‘now or by no means’ when discussing plans for the sequel, which comes 36 years after the discharge of the 1986 hit movie.

Resulting from be launched in cinemas on Might 27, Maverick sees the Hollywood star reprise the function of US naval aviator Pete Mitchell, with Jennifer becoming a member of, alongside Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Jon Hamm and Glen Powell – in addition to OG star Val Kilmer.

Jennifer’s costume so glistening we'd like shades (Image: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

English actor Paul Bettany, his wife actress Jennifer Connelly and her son Kai Dugan.
Paul and Jennifer met on the set of A Lovely Thoughts (Image: ROBYN BECK/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

She was joined by High Gun star Tom Cruise (Image: Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs)

After touching down and stepping out onto the USS Halfway service in San Diego, California, the actor thanked followers and praised his fellow forged members.

Talking to Deadline, he stated: ‘This second proper right here, attending to see everybody, no masks. That is fairly epic.

‘It was actually now or by no means, it was a second, we had been tips on how to inform this story… I’ve been fascinated with it and figuring it out.

‘I believed if we’re going to go in, we now have to go in now.’

US actor Tom Cruise arrives to the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick.
…who flew in on a helicopter (Image: AFP)

He added: ‘In fact (High Gun) is that this nice summer time expertise, and what it turned to audiences and generations is one thing I might by no means have imagined on the time we had been making it.

‘But it surely’s a drama at its coronary heart and it has that sort of storytelling that I lower my tooth on, that I like seeing with these characters.

‘The film means so much to me, so much to my profession, so much to the studio and so much to audiences.’

Tom offered his forged members with a rigorous coaching programme in preparation for the movie, together with real-life jet airplane flying classes.

He defined: ‘This forged is superb, they’re unbelievable these guys… they’re a really proficient group.’

The sensation was mutual, with the actor praised by his co-stars as a ‘mentor and good friend’ who ‘cares that everyone wins’.

Glen advised the outlet: ‘Tom Cruise doesn’t half-arse something.

‘With out Tom on this film being our flight teacher, our mentor, our good friend, there isn't a means we might pull this off.

‘Tom is Maverick in actual life, he’s as cool because it will get.

‘The factor that makes him particular is that he cares that everyone wins. You watch this film and each single character within the film wins, everybody appears cool.

‘It’s by no means about him, it’s in regards to the finish product.’

In the meantime Mad Males star Jon, who performs Vice, paid tribute to Tom’s ‘unparalleled work ethic’ and famous he was the ‘first man on set and the final man to go away,’ musing he ‘works tougher than all people’.

Maverick was initially due for launch in July 2019 however was repeatedly pushed again as a result of Covid pandemic.

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