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“The strength of his will is the thing that I remember,” said Taffy Brodesers-Akner, who wrote a Val Kilmer profile for the New York Times Magazine in May 2020. “He was sure he was going to come back to his exact old self.”
The two met for an interview, just like a locking due to the coronavirus pandemic, seemed almost some.
Mr. Kilmer, who received a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2014 and had undergone tracheotomy, was still in the process of happening. Mr. Brodesers-Akner attributes him to provide “the first puff of hope and overall positivity that I had witnessed, I did not remember the number of months”.
“What is someone doing when he is known, who is a superhero, who is an action hero, who is beautiful, who is this kind of good health and vigor, what are you doing then?” She said. “And many people, they disappear. But that’s not how it happened for Val. “
Mr. Kilmer, who played classic roles such as Batman and Iceman in “Top Gun”, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65 years old.
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