Tom Cruise lip sync battle recreates Top Gun karaoke scene with Jimmy Fallon on Tonight Show

 
Epic battle: Tom Cruise and Jimmy Fallon (Picture: Getty)
Theo Wargo/NBC/Getty Images for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"
Emma Powell31 July 2015
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Actor Tom Cruise has recreated the famous Top Gun karaoke scene during a lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

Cruise, 53, showed off his singing skills while making an appearance On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote his new film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

The actor opened the battle with what he believes to be the "song of the summer" - an impassioned rendition of The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face.

Despite looking panicked by the end, Fallon soon upped the competition with his sync to The Rolling Stones’ Undercover Of The Night complete with Mick Jagger's signature dance moves.

Clearly getting carried away with himself Cruise later tossed his jacket off and ran his fingers through his hair as he got into an animated one man duet of Meatloaf’s Paradise By The Dashboard Light.

But in a throwback to his fighter pilot days as Maverick in Top Gun, Cruise picked out his Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood - an embarrassed member of the audience - as he joined Fallon for a duet of The Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling.

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The pair serenaded the unsuspecting audience member as Fallon ran his fingers through her hair and Cruise planted a kiss on her hand.

Cruise recently revealed that he is keen to reprise the role of Maverick in a sequel.

Speaking at the London premiere of the latest Mission Impossible instalment he told Reuters: "It would be fun. I would like to get back into those jets."

He also noted that "it would have to be practical" adding: "I don't want any CGI jets. I want to shoot it like how we shot the first one."

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is set for UK cinema release on July 30.

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