Tom Cruise stuck his neck out for his co-star. Back in 1986, the Hollywood icon starred as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in "Top Gun" alongside Val Kilmer, who played his rival, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky.The two played students at an elite Naval aviation school.
Both actors reprise their roles for the upcoming sequel, "Top Gun: Maverick" – thanks in part to Cruise’s insisting to producer Jerry Bruckheimer that Kilmer, now 61, return. "He said, 'We have to have Val, we have to have him back.
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