
Val Kilmer explains his ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ return and ‘authentic friendship’ with Tom Cruise
LA TimesThe Iceman cometh again, this time as a friend. And as Val Kilmer tells The Times, “I can’t believe how kind the whole world has been.. It’s very humbling.” The box-office standout of the summer season so far, “Top Gun: Maverick” has already become Tom Cruise’s biggest domestic grosser and blown audiences away with its aerial action sequences. — Joseph Kosinski, director, “Top Gun: Maverick” Being mostly unable to use his voice is a huge adjustment, of course, for one of Hollywood’s more expressive actors. “I think at the time they were a bit competitive with each other, but now it’s something they can just laugh about.” Kilmer wrote, “Tom and I get along really well. Justin Chang’s review in The Times voices a typical response: “In one fictional moment, he gives us something unmistakably, irreducibly real, partly by puncturing the fantasy of human invincibility that his co-star has never stopped trying to sell.” Kilmer says the flood of affection has been surprising: “I can’t believe how kind the whole world has been.
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