How Val Kilmer's voice was created in Top Gun: Maverick

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Cruise reprise his role as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell alongside Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm, as he coaches a cohort of young fighter pilots before they carry out a dangerous mission.

Arriving almost 40 years after Tony Scott’s 1986 smash hit original, Top Gun: Maverick is obviously loaded with nostalgia and direct references to the previous film.

One such reference is the brief but crucial appearance of Val Kilmer’s Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky, Mav’s rival turned wingman from the original movie.

And fans will have noticed a distinct difference between the Iceman of 1986 and the Iceman of 2022: Kilmer’s voice. In 2017, Kilmer, 62, revealed that he had been battling throat cancer for two years – a tracheotomy saved his life but left him unable to speak as clearly as he had before.