Val Kilmer disappeared completely from publicity.
Actor Val Kilmer died on 1 April at the age of 65.
Kilmer, a cancer patient, had completely withdrawn from the public for years before his death.
People magazine writesthat Val Kilmer was last seen in the public at the Thespians Go Hollywood gala in November 2019.
Val Kilmer posed on a red carpet together with her daughter Mercedes Kilmer with.
After that, Val Kilmer was not seen at any occasion. In 2022 appeared Top Gun – The best of pilots sequel Top Gun: Maverickwhere Kilmer played in a small role. He had already lost his ability to speak at that time, so Kilmer’s role character Tom “Iceman” Kazansky’s voice was made with artificial intelligence.
Mercedes Kilmer and Val Kilmer on November 18, 2019 on a red carpet. This was the last public appearance of Val Kilmer. Backgrid
Kilmer did not participate in the film’s marketing and was not seen at the premiere.
The star of the film’s main part Tom Cruise Kilmer’s role was impressed.
“I’ve known for decades, and when he returned to acting that character … he is such a strong actor that he became Iceman again,” Cruise said Jimmy Kimmel in the program in 2023.
In 2014, Val Kilmer was diagnosed with cucumber cancer. The actor later recovered from it, but lost his voice as a result of his trachea operation.
Val Kilmer died of pneumonia.
Kilmer is known in addition to Top Gun for movies such as Top Secret, The Doors and Batman Forever.