David Thewlis remembers “awful” five months working with Val Kilmer on ill-fated ‘The Island of Dr Moreau’
nme.comThe Island of Dr Moreau co-star Val Kilmer, who died earlier this week aged 65.The Batman Forever actor passed away on Tuesday (April 1) after a battle with pneumonia, as confirmed by his daughter Mercedes.
Kilmer had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, but later made a recovery.Amongst his filmography is the 1996 film The Island of Dr Moreau, which saw Kilmer and Thewlis star alongside Marlon Brando in one of his final film roles.
Its production was notoriously rife with problems, not least Kilmer’s frequent clashes with Brando and director John Frankenheimer.Reflecting on his time spent with Kilmer, Thewlis shared an Instagram post in tribute to his fallen friend. “I spent the most bizarre 5 months of my entire life with Val Kilmer, out in the Australian rainforest, on the ill fated Island of Dr Moreau,” he wrote.“It was so spectacularly bleak and awful it was almost wonderful.
Look it up sometime. As Val wrote in his final mail to me: ‘What an incredible story we lived, you and I. One of the greatest.'”Thewlis added that he learned of Kilmer’s death while back in Australia: “He was one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met.
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