Val Kilmer, screen icon and crossed with layers, dead at age 65
Val Kilmer, an actor who was a force in some of Hollywood’s most memorable films in the eighties and ninety years, died Tuesday, the New York Times reported.
He was 65 years old.
Kilmer died of pneumonia according to his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. The actor was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 just to recover later, he said.
The Times was the first to inform the news of Kilmer’s death.
Originally from Los Angeles and initially an actor of stages, Kilmer had charm and charisma since the beginning of his film career, initiated by the comedies “Top Secret!” and “true genius.” Soon he went out to heaven when Lieutenant Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in “Top Gun”.
Kilmer, who starred with Tom Cruise in the film, revealed in his 2020 memoirs, “I am your Huckleberry”, who did not want the part to the beginning before his agent “basically tortured” to meet with director Tony Scott, who promised him that the initial script would improve.
He would continue to repeat his role as Iceman in the sequel of 2022 “Top Gun: Maverick” at an emotional meeting on screen with Cruise that described as “very personal and moving.” It ended up being the performance of the final film of Kilmer in a part that reflected his speech challenges after his cancer diagnosis.
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After his first race in “Top Gun”, Jim Morrison later starred in the 90s of the 90s of Oliver Stone “The Doors”, in which he showed an intense commitment to play the legendary rock singer.
“I did not seduce my lifestyle, but I had that, and I needed, for the role, to be as disciplined as he in these escapes,” he once told the critic and movie reporter Bobbie Wygant.
Kilmer, whose films raised $ 3.8 billion worldwide, consolidated himself as a “Heat” star by Michael Mann, “True Romance” by Tony Scott and the classic “Tombstone” Western with a remarkable performance as Doc Holliday.
The last film left an impression on the director of “Batman Returns”, Joel Schumacher, who, after Michael Keaton moved away the Batsuit, chose Kilmer to star in the 1995 film “Batman Forever”.
Kilmer, who visited the Set of Adam West’s “Batman” television series in the 1960s when he was a child, admitted in his 2021 autobiographical documentary, “Val”, that “any emotion of childhood” that had “was crushed by reality” of Batsuit’s restrictions.
The film marked Kilmer’s only time portraying the dark gentleman before George Clooney faced the superhero in “Batman & Robin” in 1997.
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Schumacher, in a 2011 interview with IFC.com, declared that Kilmer was “the best Batman” despite his statements that it was difficult to work on the set.
That reputation followed Kilmer during his time in Hollywood and is one that he recognized in “Val.”
“I have behaved badly. I have behaved with courage. I have behaved strangely with some. Niando any of this and I do not regret because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew that it existed,” Kilmer said in the documentary.
“And I am blessed.”
His ex -wife and his partner “Willow”, Joanne Whalley, and their two children, Mercedes and Jack, survive.