“Porned badly,” but doesn’t regret anything. Actor died at the age of 65 victim of pneumonia.
US actor Val Kilmer, protagonist of box office hits such as “Top Gun”, “The Doors” and “Batman” He died in Los Angeles at age 65, confirmed his daughter.
Mercedes Kilmer confirmed to the Associated Press agency that his father had received a throat cancer diagnosis in 2014 and managed to recover, but died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, as a result of a pneumoniasurrounded by family and friends. It had been fighting cancer since 2014.
“I was bad. I behaved bravely. For some, I behaved bizarrely. I don’t deny any of this and I don’t regret anything, because I lost and found parts of myself that I never knew they existed, ”says at the end of“ Val ”, the 2021 documentary about his career.“ And I feel blessed ”.
Kilmer was The younger actor ever accepted in the prestigious Juilliard School. Premiered in the cinema in 1984 with the film “Top Secret!”followed by the comedy “Real Genius” in 1985. Later, he would show the comedian’s skills in films such as “MacGruber” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”.
Val Kilmer’s film career reached the heyday in the early 1990s, When he wielded Doc Holliday’s pistols, alongside Kurt Russell and Bill Paxton in “Tombstone”, 1993, then starring Elvis’s ghost in “True Romance” and then a 1995 Michael Mann “Heat” movie expert alongside Al Pacino and Robert de Niro.
The actor-a follower of the Suzuki Method of Training in Arts-threw himself to the roles. For example, when he played Doc Holliday in “Tombstone”, filled the ice bed In the final scene to imitate the feeling of dying of tuberculosis.
When interpreting Morrison, he permanently wore leather pants, He asked his castmates and the team to refer to him only as Jim Morrison and played The Doors for a year.
Rumors that he was a person with whom it was hard to work with always existed, but never prevented being invited to unmistakable roles like “Scot” in the movie “Spartan”.
Their roles, always a lot of “male man”, especially in action movies, as
This intensity gave him the reputation of being difficult on the set of filming, something Kilmer ended up agreeing later, in his memories-‘I’m Your Huckleberry’-emphasizing the primacy of art about the business.
Kilmer published Two poetry books (including “My Edens After Burns”) and was named for a Grammy in 2012 by Spoken Word album “The Mark of Zorro”. It was also Plastic artist and Christian scientist throughout life.
He dated Cher, married and divorced actress Joanne Whalley. Leave two children, Mercedes and Jack. His last role was in “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022.
