Hollywood stars were shocked on Tuesday evening to learn from the death of Batman Forever and Heat Star Val Kilmer at just 65.
The tribute to the fallen star – who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday in pneumonia – was his friend and colleague actor Josh Brolin.
The No Country for Old Men-Star who shared a Throwback photo of the two actors who grin somewhere earlier to an emergency tracheotomy that Kilmer had discovered in 2014 after his throat cancer was discovered.
“You see, friend,” Brolin lovingly lifted the photo. “I'm going to miss you.
He praised Kilmer Die a spooky latest social media post, less than two months before his death and a 'smart, challenging, brave, Uber-creative stunner,' adding 'to it, there is not much left.
“I hope to see you there in heaven when I finally get there,” Brolin continued. “Until then, great memories, beautiful thoughts.”
Leading of the Hollywood -first to Val Kilmer -who died on Tuesday in LA at the age of 65 -was his friend and colleague actor Josh Brolin. He praised Kilmer as a 'smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative stunner' and said he hoped to meet again in the 'heavens'
Kilmer's daughter Mercedes Kilmer, whom he shared with ex-wife Joanne Whalley, revealed his death on Tuesday; Shown in 2019 in LA
The two actors never seem to have made a film together, but Brolin wore a shirt in particular a shirt for Bob Dylan's Together Through Life album, while Kilmer was a remarkable fan of the legendary singer – songwriter.
In a performance in 2013 at KCRW, Kilmer remembered an uncomfortable encounter that he had with Dylan, who was a big fan of his film Tombstone and asked him to recite a part of the iconic lines of the film, although the famous stormy actor refused and the tables to ask Dylan to wave him.
In a message on Instagram, the actor Josh Gad shared a photo of Kilmer in glory days after filming Top Gun.
'Rip Val Kilmer. Thank you for defining so many films from my youth. You were really an icon, “he wrote the post.
The comic actor and filmmaker Jorma Taccone, who is part of the Lonely Island with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, just wrote 'Love You, Val' in a message on X (formerly Twitter).
Kilmer's daughter Mercedes Kilmer, whom he shared with ex-wife Joanne Whalley, revealed his death on Tuesday.
The screen icon was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and underwent surgery, including a tracheotomy that significantly influenced his ability to speak. He was later declared cancer freely.
Kilmer was known for his role as Iceman in the Hitfilm Top Gun in 1986 and as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the Batman of 1995 Forever. Despite his permanently damaged voice, he returned a short return to the screen in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.
In a message on Instagram, the actor Josh Gad shared a photo of Kilmer in glory days after filming Top Gun. 'Rip Val Kilmer. Thank you for defining so many films from my youth. You were really an icon '; Depicted in a 1986
The comic actor and filmmaker Jorma Taccone, who is part of the Lonely Island with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, just wrote 'Love You, Val'
He also played famous musician Jim Morrison in the 1991 film The Doors.
Apart from Mercedes, 33, he is also survived by son Jack Kilmer, 29. Kilmer was married to their mother Joanne from 1988 to 1996.
Kilmer underwent both radiotherapy and chemotherapy for his cancer, as well as a tracheostomy a procedure to create an artificial gap in this neck to help him breathe.
The last damaged his vocal cords permanently permanent and therefore changed his striking voice forever.
In the Amazon Prime documentary entitled Val, Kilmer spoke frankly about life with the consequences of throat cancer, including the use of an electrical device called a voice box on the artificial hole in his throat to talk.
'I clearly sound much worse than I feel. I can't speak without connecting this gap [in his throat]”He said.
A voting box device is usually a machine on batteries that produces sound to make a voice and is used to help people who suffer suffering in throat cancer.
The actor, who also had to have meals through a food tube, explained some of the other challenges.
'You have to make the choice to breathe or eat. It is an obstacle that is very present with the person who sees me, “he said.
Val's son took care of the voice-over storytelling of the documentary, but his lines were written by Val himself.
Kilmer previously detailed how he did not know he had throat cancer until one day he coughed up 'coagulated blood' and called on an ambulance before fainting.
His daughter Mercedes Kilmer, 33, whom he shared with ex-wife Joanne Whalley, confirmed his death to the New York Times; Mercedes and Val in Los Angeles in 2019
The screen icon was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014; Shown in 2019
Kilmer underwent both radiotherapy and chemotherapy for his cancer, as well as a tracheostomy a procedure to create an artificial hole in this neck to help him breathe breathing
The last damaged his vocal cords permanently permanent and therefore changed his striking voice forever; Seen with Angelina Jolie
Kilmer was known for his role as Iceman in the Hitfilm Top Gun from 1986
Despite his permanently damaged voice, he made a short return to the screen in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick (photo)
He also played Batman/Bruce Wayne in the 1995 Batman Forever
He then woke up in a hospital in Santa Monica after an emergency tracheotomy for throat cancer.
In 2020, Kilmer said that he 'healed very quickly' after his diagnosis of the throat cancer, in an interview with Good Morning America.
“This is a tracheotomy,” he said, holding his hand to his throat, “to help me breathe because the glands in my throat also swell.”
When asked what he misses most about his voice, Kilmer said to GMA: “That I had one! And that I didn't laugh like a pirate. '
Kilmer was one of the most prominent leading men in Hollywood in the nineties for countless splashes with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dented his career.
Over the years, Kilmer received a reputation as a temperamental, intense, perfectionist and sometimes selfish.
'When certain people criticize me because I am demanding, I think that is a cover for something that they did not do well. I think they are trying to protect themselves, “Kilmer told the Orange County Register newspaper in 2003.
“I believe I am a challenge, not demanding, and I don't apologize for that.”
Apart from Mercedes, he is also survived by son Jack Kilmer, 29. Kilmer was married to their mother Joanne from 1988 to 1996; The brothers and sisters seen in 2021
He made his film debut in the lead role in the Spoof Spoof Top Secreceim! (1984) Before appearing in the Goofy Comedy Real Genius (1985).
He shot to the star rendom while the co-star of Tom Cruise in the Smash 1986 hit Top Gun (1986), naval pilot Tom 'Iceman' played Kazansky, and decades later it appeared next to Cruise again in the 2022 follow-up Top Gun: Maverick.
Kilmer was very happy with the opportunity to resume his role as Iceman in Top Gun: Maverick.
The actor was known for playing the quiet, cool rival of Maverick by Tom Cruise in the original film from 1986.
However, when the actor admitted in an interview from 2013, Larry King will not be approached about the appearance in a proposed top gun continued, the troops are reportedly collected to ensure that his buddy was recorded.
In an interview with people, producer Jerry Bruckheimer stated: “Tom said he would not make the film without him.”
As such, as soon as the last script was approved, it made the surcharges for ice that had been promoted to admiral to participate in the pleasure.
“So the fact that he could do it and he worked with us in the script,” the producer explained, “to have him there and to be part of it, was a really emotional day when we filmed him. Because you want to see the two on the screen again, Iceman and Maverick go on it. And that is what making films and the audience loves. '
That specific element is one that has received high figures from both critics and fans.
Kilmer was one of the most prominent leading men in Hollywood in the nineties before countless splashes with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dent his career; Seen with Cher
Kilmer played in director Ron Howard's Fantasy Willow (1988) and married his British co-star Joanne, with whom he had two children before divorcing.
One of his most challenging roles came in The Doors (1991) by director Oliver Stone in which he played Jim Morrison, the charismatic and ultimately doomed lead singer of the influential rock band The Doors.
To try to convince Stone to cast him, Kilmer put together a video of eight minutes of herself that sang and looked like Morrison on different points in his life. Kilmer's own singing voice is used in the film.
The doors heralded the highest profile year of his career. In the 1993 Western Tombstone he played Old West Gunfighter Doc Holliday.
He had two commercial successes in 1995, together with Al Pacino and Robert de Niro in the crime drama Heat and successor to Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader in Batman Forever, the third episode in the Batman series.
Batman Forever was welcomed by critics and Kilmer was transferred by co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey. Kilmer withdrew from the next Batman film.
Director Joel Schumacher called Kilmer 'the most psychologically restless person I have ever worked with'.
