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Tom Cruise During a Cinemacon presentation on Thursday (April 3rd, 2025), a minute’s silence for his friend and film partner Val Kilmer held.
Tom Cruise was on site in Las Vegas to preview the cinema operators for his work Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to show. But before he started the action sequences, he praised the Actorthe one in the two Top Gun-Films alongside Cruises “Maverick” the “Iceman” played.
“I want to take a moment before starting today to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer,” said Cruise. “I can’t tell you how much I admired his work and he admired him as a person. How grateful and honored I was that he was at Top Gun participated and for Top gun: Maverick has come back. I think it would be really nice if we could all take a moment because he loved films. And gave all of us a lot with his appearances and films. If we all take our time for a moment. And could simply think of all the wonderful times we had with him. “
“I wish you all the best for your next trip”
Cruise ended the homage with the words: “Thank you, Val. I wish you all the best for your next trip. And thank you for it. I know that he appreciates it.”
After their joint appearance in Top Gun Cruise and Kilmer remained friends from 1986. 36 years later, they stood together in front of the camera again to get their roles in Top gun: Maverick To repeat in a moving scene that is now Kilmer’s last appearance on the big screen.
After the death of Kilmer at the beginning of this week there was A flood of honors by his colleaguesincluding his tombstone co-star Kurt Russell, the one Rolling Stone said: “I thought his performance was one of his best. We were always on the same wavelength. We always thought the same thing.”