Pilots, parties, and pranks: Filming Top Gun with Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise
Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots. On screen, saving the USA from Soviet MiG jets was serious business. Off screen, filming in California and Nevada, things were less serious.
"Top Gun" star Val Kilmer was mourned by his two children Mercedes and Jack in a heartfelt statement after his death.
"Val will be greatly missed, but his legacy will live on forever in the films and performances he so brilliantly shared with ...
Kilmer was cast in the lead role and his interpretation, we were soon to find, was rakish and cocksure, rebellious and pouting. A Brando interpretation of the Melancholy Dane, if you will; ...
Editor's note: In 2020, USA TODAY editor Barbara VanDenburgh reported on the emotional and striking revelations from Val Kilmer's memoir. Kilmer, then 60, had recently starred in the sequel to ...
Val Kilmer died this past Tuesday at the age of 65 and in the wake of his death many celebrities and filmmakers have posted ...
Kilmer also said that there was "very little" to the character of Iceman so he invited his own backstory. "None of us knew at ...
"Heat" co-stars Josh Brolin and Robert De Niro, as well as "Top Gun" co-stars Tom Cruise and Danny Ramirez are among those ...
Val Kilmer, who died this week, had an extensive dating history during his Hollywood heartthrob years that included stars ...
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