"I didn't care about the film. The story didn't interest me" Val Kilmer has revealed that he didn’t initially want to appear in the first Top Gun movie but begged to be in the upcoming reboot.
The actor played Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the 1986 movie alongside Tom Cruise, but in his new memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, he admits: “I didn’t want the part.
I didn’t care about the film. The story didn’t interest me. “My agent, who also represented Tom Cruise, basically tortured me into at least meeting Tony Scott saying he was one of the hottest directors in town.” Kilmer said he even tried to self-sabotage the audition, by “looking like a fool or the goon.” “I read the lines indifferently and yet, amazingly, I was told I had the part.
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