The actor Val kilmer of the reputation of “Top Gun” dies at 65

Actor Val Kilmer, who played in films like Top Gun, Batman foreverAnd The doorsdied on April 1, said her daughter. He was 65 years old.

His daughter Mercedes Kilmer said The New York Times Tuesday, his father died of pneumonia. She added that he had received a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2014 and then recovered. Kilmer revealed in 2017 that his two -year -old battle against the disease “wreaked havoc” on his family and said that he had undergone a procedure on his trachea which made his voice hoarse and left him out of breath.

“He’s a person so in layers,” said girl Mercedes People In 2021, the same year the documentary Valve About his life story has come out. (Mercedes was also involved in the project.) “There is the childish game, but then there is also the deep wisdom of someone who was on a spiritual path of their whole life at the same time. There are many opposites who make him incredibly interesting, and that is why our film is so interesting.”

The original Top gun– Elected in 1986 – was only the third film of Kilmer; His latest film was 2022 Top Gun: MaverickA series of the original film and also with Tom Cruise. Kilmer appeared briefly in the film, which Co-Star Cruise entitled “Pretty Emotional”, he said in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, by People. “I have known Val for decades, and for him to come back to play this character … He is such a powerful actor that he instantly becomes this character again”, referring to Lieutenant Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.

“It was fun,” said Kilmer in 2013 about working alongside Cruise for the original 1986. “My guy did not love him, but it was fun not to love him.”

From the rest of 2022, Kilmer said Weekly entertainment“Returning to work with Tom more than 30 years later, it was as if no time had happened at all. Be next to him makes you instantly better. That said, we made much laugh so much.

Kilmer then played in 1991 The doors As a singer Jim Morrison, playing alongside Meg Ryan and fully engaging in the role by memorizing all the songs of Morrison and dressing like him. The daughter of Kilmer Mercedes was born the same year 1991, and her son Jack was born in 1995 (the same year Batman forever was released), both who share with ex-wife Joanne Whalley.

Originally from Los Angeles, Kilmer began playing in high school and continued to frequent Julliard in New York, where Weekly entertainment reported that he was the youngest student admitted to the theater service at the time. In addition to his documentary in 2021, in 2020, he published a dissertation, I am your Huckleberrywhose title was taken from a line his character Doc Holliday said in his 1993 film Tombstone.

“Someone sent me a recently survey where Tombstone to sneak in the 10 best westerns of all time, ”said kilmer later Deadline. “I do not know if this film is a classic, but it has some elements of a classic, like this cast and this scenario. I still cannot go through an airport without hearing” I am your Huckleberry “.

Known for her large -scale relations with her colleagues celebrities as Dear, Cindy Crawford, Angelina Jolie and Daryl Hannah, Kilmer was also known to be sometimes Mercurial on the set. He said he said The Orange County Register in 2003 (by Page six)) “When some people criticize me for having been demanding, I think it is a cover for something they have not done well. I think they are trying to protect themselves. ”

“I think I’m difficult, not demanding, and I don’t apologize for that,” he added.

Kilmer was also known to take Deadline Discuss it: “The road has not traveled a career.” To this end, Kilmer said at the point of sale: “I would not know what I now know spiritually without turning away from the success as often as me. I had my “time in the desert” in a very serious way, and today I know who I am and I can look at any man on earth with love, empathy and forgiveness. ”