Tom Cruise Honore Val Kilmer in Cinemacon, asks the crowd for a moment of silence

At the start of a surprise appearance in Cinemacon this morning, Tom Cruise took a moment to honor his Top gun Co-star, fire Val Kilmer. Kilmer died earlier this week at the age of 65, after fighting pneumonia.

Before asking the public to “take a moment”, cruise, hand in the heart, says: “I would like to honor a dear friend of me, Val kilmer. I really can’t tell you how much I admire his work, how much I thought of him as a human being, how honored it was when he joined Top gun and returned for Top Gun: Maverick. I think it would be great if we could all take a moment and think at all the wonderful moments that we had with him. Do you all want to do this? Let’s just take a moment. With this, the colosseum became silent while Cruise bowed his head.

Kilmer’s escape role was as LT Tom “Iceman” Kazansky opposed to cruise in 1986 Top gun. Thirty-six years later, he resumed the role in the number of $ 1.5 billion Top Gun: Maverick Share a single scene with Cruise that provided an emotional center to the film. After the release of the blockbuster, Cruise told Jimmy Kimmel: “I was crying, I became emotional. For him to come back and play this character … he is such a powerful actor, that he instantly becomes this character again … You look at Iceman. ”

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Kilmer received a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2015. A procedure carried out as part of his treatment damaged his vocal cords, and thereafter he had trouble speaking. In the Maladder Scene, he mainly hits his dialogue as Iceman, who has become Admiral Kazansky, but is expressed to advise his maverick rival who became friendly to friendship before the two share a poignant embrace.

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