‘Grateful and honoured’: Tom Cruise pays tribute to Val Kilmer
Tom Cruise has paid tribute to his Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer, who died earlier this week aged 65.
Appearing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Cruise led a crowd in The Colosseum theatre in a moment of silence to “honour a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer”.
“I can’t tell you how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human being and how grateful and honoured I was when he joined Top Gun,” Cruise said of Kilmer, who played his rival Ice Man in Top Gun in 1986.
The 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick marked Kilmer’s last movie role. Kilmer, also known for his roles playing Batman and Jim Morrison in The Doors, died Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
In Las Vegas, Cruise bowed his head in the cavernous theatre, which was packed with movie theatre owners and others who work in the industry.
Source: BBC