Tom Cruise ‘cried’ during emotional reunion with Val Kilmer on Top Gun: Maverick
- Val Kilmer passed away at age 65 on April 1 due to pneumonia, according to his daughter.
- Tom Cruise became emotional during a reunion with Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick, admitting, 'I was crying. I got emotional.'
- Kilmer's character, Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky, used a computer for speech due to an unspecified illness.
- Steven Spielberg stated that Cruise 'saved Hollywood's ass,' highlighting the success of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.
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Tom Cruise ‘cried’ during emotional reunion with Val Kilmer on Top Gun: Maverick
‘He’s such a powerful actor that he instantly became that character again,’ Cruise said of his co-star
Val Kilmer had his voice recreated with AI after cancer; see - 02/04/2025 - Illustrated
One of the last movie appearances of Val Kilmer, the actor who died this Tuesday (1st), was in “Top Gun: Maverick”, from 2022, in which he reprised the role of naval aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky alongside Tom Cruise - his character in the first “Top Gun”, from 1986, which launched him to stardom. Read more (04/02/2025)
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