Editing Top Secret! (section)

===Casting===
Kilmer was cast after the directors saw him in a play called ''Slab Boys'' with [[Sean Penn]] and [[Kevin Bacon]].<ref name=ScreenCrush/> He turned up to the audition dressed like Elvis Presley.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Maslin, Janet|date=June 22, 1984|title=''At the Movies'': 'Top Secret!' rock star aims to be lovable|work=The New York Times|page=C10}}</ref> "I like to think of it as the role Elvis never got but should have", said Abrahams. Lucy Gutteridge, who plays the female lead, had just appeared in the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] production of ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]''.<ref name=NewYorkTimes/> Unlike ''Airplane!'', the film does not feature a large number of cameos by famous actors, because, as Zucker explained, "That was one of the jokes in ''Airplane!'' and we had done it and wanted to move on."<ref name=NewYorkTimes/> Two well-known actors who were cast in the film were [[Omar Sharif]] as Agent Cedric and [[Peter Cushing]] as a Swedish bookstore proprietor.