Will Strong remembers the missed opportunity with Val Kilmer: “The greatest regret in my whole career”

The death of Val Kilmer on Tuesday caused sincere tributes to friends, fans and former co -stars, including the alum “Saturday Night Live” Will Forte, who shared a particularly sweet story to live with Kilmer, to make a film together – and “the biggest regret” of his career.

“I used to watch The incredible raceAnd he came home at some point when I looked at him and said to myself, “Why do you look at these garbage?” Come on, this thing will rot your mind ”, recalls strong Friday in his memory for Vulture.

The reality TV series sees candidates sent to random international localities to drive out the clues. While Kilmer was initially skeptical about its entertainment value, the star of “Heat” apparently became a giant fan and a passionate observer during his stay with strong.

“At some point, he said,” Will, you and I have to go The incredible race. We owe. Let’s do The incredible race“” Strong wrote on Friday. “I say to myself:” I am so entirely in it. “We really excited about it, then we called our respective agents and managers.”

The actor said that his representatives were categorically opposed, which prompted him to acquiesce.

“It may be to this day the greatest regret of my entire career – that I have never done The incredible race With Val “, he admitted.” I think we would have come out very quickly, but it would have been the experience of a life. »»

Forte left “SNL” in 2010 but followed in a long line of former alumni who transformed their most loved sketch into a film. His parody of MacGuyver “Macgruber”, in which the Ranger of the Fictal Fictive Army constantly fails to his mission, was ultimately a flop at the box office.

However, Fort remembers with emotion to make the classic cult now precious, where he threw Kilmer as the villain Dieter von Cutant. The actors then lived together for almost three months in 2011, when Kilmer was in the middle of a move and needed a place to stay.

His daughter Mercedes Kilmer told the New York Times on Tuesday that his father, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, recovered – but died of pneumonia.

Kilmer, a real actor of character in the body of a leading man, was 65 years old.