And we can reveal that he did not want to audition for his breakthrough party in Top gun Because he had moralistic problems about the project, thinking that it was a work of propaganda.
He was lucky that it was the director, Tony Scott, obsessed with him. Scott just had To have an audition for the role of Iceman.
Kilmer did everything to do not Land the part. He claims that he “reads the lines indifferently” and was surprised when he found out that he was scored the part. In fact, he even tried to run away afterwards.
The director chased him all the way to the elevator and only managed to stop him by bumping his hand in the final door.
And one of his Great regret was unable to take his biopic from writer Mark Twain To the big screen because of his distressed health after he has been brought down with throat cancer.
Kilmer’s planned film about Twain, which he developed into a one -man game called Burger TwainIn the end never came out, and Kilmer’s voice problems during the tour of the game, linked to throat cancerHis somewhat led to the downfall of the project. He spent a fortune on the doomed project.
“I enjoy the depth and soul that has the piece that Twain had for his fellow man and America,” he told Variety in 2018. “And the comedy that is always so close to the surface, and how valuable his genius is for us today.”