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See ya, pal. I'm going to miss you. You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker. There's not a lot left of those. I hope to see you up there in the heavens when I eventually get there. Until then, amazing memories, lovely thoughts.”
In the caption, The Goonies actor wrote I’m ready.” ... It’s been a while.”
In the clip, he can be heard telling his followers while holding the makeshift mask over his face ... He adds While working with Val on Heat I always marvelled at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val’s possessing and expressing character. After so many years of Val battling disease and maintaining his spirit, this is tremendously sad news.”
In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter: Mann said Remembering Val Kilmer, whose indelible cinematic mark spanned genres and generations. RIP Iceman.”
Sharing an image of Kilmer from the original 1986 film the post read His rendition of Doc Holliday in Tombstone was what every actor dreams of achieving. So many wonderful performances. Sad to lose him so soon. RIP Val Kilmer.”
RIP Val Kilmer. ... If it wasn't for our chance encounter at the Source in 1985, I may never have been cast in FULL METAL JACKET. Thanks, Val.”
Everything was different about this job than I’d experienced before. The size of the character and how strange it was that Michael Keaton had decided not to do it – I just said yes, without reading the script,
he told Entertainment Tonight ahead of its release in 1995. I didn't really get back to earth until about two or three years after my brother died. It's like that Nickelback song, 'I'm sick of sight without the sense of feeling.'
I am just madly, wildly entertained by them. My only gripe is that I never see them enough, so I never get enough of the wild entertainment that everyone else gets, but they're really, really, entertaining."
Kilmer admitted in a 2020 interview with People magazine of his children We all spend so much time together. Even just getting to meet all my dad's friends from before I was born — there are so many beautiful things that happen when you need help from people."
His daughter Mercedes added Allow nothing to be in your life that you cannot walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner,
Once you’re a star, you’re always a star,
he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. Throughout the early 1990s, he was one of Hollywood's hottest stars and the high-profile roles piled up,
I have behaved poorly. I have behaved bravely. I have behaved bizarrely to some. I deny none of this and have no regrets because I have lost and found parts of myself that I never knew existed,
he said toward the end of the film It isn’t easy to talk and be understood,
he wrote on his website in 2022 I'm grateful to the entire team at Sonantic who restored my voice in a way I never imagined possible."
In a 2021 statement to People, Kilmer discussed regaining his voice via artificial intelligence So the fact that ... to have
When certain people criticise me for being demanding, I think that’s a cover for something they didn’t do well,
he told the Orange County Register in 2003. RIP Val Kilmer. Thank you for defining so many of the movies of my childhood. You truly were an icon."
You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker,
he said in an Instagram post