To read more of GQ's coverage of Val Kilmer through the years, click here. Val Kilmer was all mesmerizing contrasts. His feminine features—shimmering green eyes, full lips, hair that even when shorn into proto-bro spikes had sheen and sway—crowned a jaw and a body that might have belonged to a San Fernando Valley bully.
Kurt Russell revealed in a resurfaced interview that he and the late Val Kilmer exchanged rather dark gifts after filming 1993's 'Tombstone' together.
Val Kilmer, who died April 1 at age 65, withdrew from Hollywood at his New Mexico ranch. In 2006, he welcomed us into his treehouse for a visit.
Cher, who previously dated Kilmer, pays tribute after his death at age 65: "Will miss u."Key PointsCher paid tribute to her ex-boyfriend in a candid post after dating him in the early 1980s.The singer previously opened up about falling "madly in love" with Kilmer.
Matthew Modine shared a story about running into an "upset" Kilmer at a Los Angeles restaurant in the '80s and how it may have changed his career.
Jim Carrey shared a tribute to his 'Batman Forever' costar Val Kilmer, saying the late actor's 'artistic achievements were rivaled only by the grace and courage with which he endured his life’s most challenging moments.
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The co-director and co-writer of ‘Top Secret!’ shares how it “was hard to predict which Val would show up on any given day” before things turned around on the late actor's first movie.
Kurt Russell looks back at his time with Val Kilmer working on 'Tombstone,' their time traveling Europe with Goldie Hawn, and their last reunion.
In what would be the final years of his life, Val Kilmer leaned more into a different type of art than acting, but he never forgot his fans.
Unlike Iceman, Doc Holliday was a character Kilmer found to be very well written in the 1993 Western “Tombstone.” Holliday is dying of tuberculosis in George P. Cosmatos’ film when he meets up with his old friend Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) in a classic showdown of outlaws and lawmen (even those attempting to retire).