In the history of cinema, there have been certain actors who have been willing to duck out on a sizable wage packet in favor of taking a cut of a movie’s profits. Tom Cruise could be the next actor to make a mind boggling amount of money from his nostalgic mega-hit Top Gun: Maverick after the film soared past $1 billion at the box office in the last couple of weeks. Returning to the role of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell after more than 30 years, no one predicted that the Top Gun sequel would decimate the box office to become the biggest movie of the year and of Cruise’s career.