“Val Kilmer’s Silent Battle: Unveiling the Untold Story Behind the Hollywood Legend’s Final Days”
The couple divorced in 1996.
The legendary Hollywood actor, who battled throat cancer, succumbed to pneumonia on 1 April
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Daughter Mercedes described him as a “layered person” with a “childlike playfulness.”
He also has “the deep wisdom of somebody who’s been on a spiritual path their whole life at the same time,” she told People in 2021.
Kilmer made an indelible mark in Hollywood by bringing to life nuanced characters with his signature deep intensity.
“He’s such a layered person, there’s the childlike playfulness,” Mercedes Kilmer said about her father
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His most lauded roles include playing rock icon Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991), gunslinger Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993) and Gotham’s caped crusader in Batman Forever (1995).
“For me, Val Kilmer was the best Batman,” said director Joel Schumacher, who has two Batman movies in his repertoire.
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Kilmer previously said he was glad to take the Batman actors’ baton from Michael Keaton.
“Everything was different about this job than I’d experienced before,” he once told ET.
“The size of the character and how strange it was that Michael Keaton had decided not to do it—I just said yes, without reading the script.”
For his debut in feature films, he was cast as an American singer in Berlin in the Cold War spy comedy Top Secret (1984).
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