Val Kilmer died just before planning the appearance of Beverly Hills Fest

Val Kilmer died on Tuesday just before Top gun The actor had to travel the red carpet at the Beverly Hills film festival.

“It was a shock to discover it. We had just confirmed Val to attend the premiere of the west coast of American badass: a retrospective by Michael Madsen Last weekend,“” Nino Simone, founder and president of the Beverly Hills film festival, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Kilmer died Tuesday in Los Angeles at 65 years of pneumonia, said her daughter, actress Mercedes Kilmer, The New York Times.

“He (Kilmer) was delighted to go out in favor of his friend (Madsen). I know that the public relations were on the phone, trying to enter the driver, bringing Val for his arrival on the red carpet of 7:30 p.m. The story and the news of his death was reported, literally to Simone, added.

The Beverly Hills Fest opened its doors with a world premiere for Hello Beautywho features Tricia Helfer in a success on a successful model that receives a diagnosis of breast cancer. Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015, and ValveA moving documentary on his life which presented his first in Cannes in July 2021, showed him a respiratory tube.

His illness has followed a Hollywood career where Kilmer played Batman and Jim Morrison, and had memorable roles as Iceman Top gun and Doc Holliday in Tombstone. His other performances included Robert de Niro’s villain in Michael Mann Heat (1995); As a crazy assistant of Marlon Brando in John Frankenheimer Dr Moreau Island (1996) and as a Souave Crook Simon Templar in Phillip Noyce The saint (1997).

Mann was one of those who were paying homage to kilmer on Wednesday, saying in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter“While working with Val on Heat I have always amazed by the range, the brilliant variability in the powerful current of the character with and expressing the character of Val. After so many years of Val fighting against diseases and maintaining his mind, it is a new sad. »»

The 25th Beverly Hills Film Festival should take place until April 6.