His prolific schedule notwithstanding, many in Hollywood are loathe to work with him, no matter how big the box office payback. While Kilmer has gained notoriety for giving people who work with him a difficult time, it would be unfair to only concentrate on one side of the story, since each cloud has its own silver lining. In a Question-and-Answer session on Reddit, Kilmer gave an objective assessment of his behavior in the past. I like to take risks and this often gave the impression I was willing to risk the money not being returned, which was foolish of me.
I understand that now…I was often unhappy trying to make pictures better. His sentiments regarding his behavior are that of a mature mind. Kilmer continues to do what he does best: Acting. While Robin doesn't regret sharing her story with Howard Stern's audience, she has recently claimed that she regrets publishing Quivers: A Life.
Nataly Owala is a seasoned writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her writing career debuted on Magazine Reel, an online campus news site. Val Kilmer's life had been both charmed, and cursed, often by his own making. And that fits his view of reality, "God wants us to walk, but the devil sends a limo," he mused to The New York Times.
But then, in , Kilmer was sent something else entirely. He was touring a stage show and began having a hard time swallowing. Shortly thereafter he was staying in Cher 's guest house when "Suddenly I awoke vomiting blood that covered the bed like a scene out of The Godfather ," he writes in I'm Your Huckleberry.
In another similar incident recounted in the memoir , Kilmer describes how "blood dripped down my body, my vision blurred, my energy drained. The story gets fuzzy here because Kilmer rejects his diagnosis as a part of his devotion to Christian Science.
Traditional doctors told him it was throat cancer. His spiritual advisor claimed he merely needed to pray the fear away. His cancer, however, seemed immune to such mind-over-matter intuitions. Kilmer's health was fast fading and he was caught in a battle between his belief in God as a healer, and the desperate pleas from his son Jack and his daughter Mercedes to seek more earthly remedies.
They pleaded with their stubborn father to save his own life. Val Kilmer eventually bowed to the pressure of his children — neither of them Christian Scientists.
That same year, , Kilmer got surgery on his ailing instrument. Next was chemotherapy and radiation. He says doctors, "zapped my whole throat," which he still describes as, "dry as a bone.
It reduced his once-booming baritone to "rasp," according to The Hollywood Reporter. His great gift was gone, "Speaking, once my joy and lifeblood has become an hourly struggle. The instrument over which I had complete mastery is now out of my control," he laments in I'm Your Huckleberry. In another ill twist of fate, Kilmer's daughter Mercedes was hit by a car in a serious accident that left a scar running down the length of her leg.
She joined her father in the hospital. Kilmer's son Jack was devastated as he tended their bedsides, telling THR , "I was just, you know, miserable, distraught, sitting next to these two. Val Kilmer wanted to keep his battle with cancer private. But in his Ghost and The Darkness co-star Michael Douglas was asked about his own well-documented battle with cancer.
Douglas off-handedly mentioned his former co-star was suffering from the same disease. Kilmer was not pleased and took to Facebook to deny the story, "I love Michael Douglas but he is misinformed," Kilmer wrote in He continued, "I have no cancer whatsoever. Kilmer was in remission and making a bit of a semantic argument.
When asked by The New York Times why he denied his diagnosis so vociferously, he simply replied, "I didn't have cancer. It was a bit like do you have a broken bone?
And if you broke it in high school, you would say no. By mid Kilmer appeared on Good Morning America , his voice a cutting struggle, "I was diagnosed with throat cancer which healed very quickly," he admitted. But in classic Kilmer fashion, he made sure to preface that admission stoically. By the mid-'90s, Val Kilmer's relationship with his wife Joanne Whalley began to crumble.
The end was bitter. Kilmer's shooting schedule had kept them apart, and by they'd become so estranged, he told Elle , "I turned on CNN and found out my wife had filed for divorce.
She took the kids and moved to a different state. Even Cher came courting. She had a friend approach Kilmer at a Manhattan restaurant in Cher called the brief fling "too intense and hot," according to People. But the days of famous women on his arm are long gone.
Kilmer says he hasn't dated anyone in the over 20 years since he split from his wife. He now lives largely alone on a small remaining portion of his once sprawling ranch. Modern medicine may have saved Val Kilmer's life but he's none too happy about the cost. Boasting that he could once perform "a hundred different voices" and endless imitations, Kilmer now believes that it was the "'treatment,'" which he puts in quotes, that "caused [his] suffering," he told The New York Times.
For several years, Kilmer lived on a ranch in New Mexico. Not just any ranch, however — it was originally named "Fork Lightning" and passed through a number of Hollywood hands. It was initially owned by lawyer Buddy Fogelson and his wife Greer Garson, a huge superstar in the s. Years later, Fogelson and Garson's son divided and sold the property: Jane Fonda bought one portion, and Kilmer the other. Kilmer's ranch sat on over 5, acres, and featured rental cabins, a bed and breakfast and plenty of other amenities.
He listed the property in , keeping only 14 acres for himself. Several directors have talked about Kilmer being difficult to work with, and that's seemingly always been the case for the star. In fact, Kilmer supposedly exited the set of the very first acting gig he ever took on: a commercial for a hamburger chain. He was only 12 years old at the time.
Apparently, Kilmer got in a fight with the director over the quality of the burgers he was hawking. He was told to act more enthusiastic about the food, but he apparently hated it. Kilmer and the director started to get heated, with Kilmer saying he couldn't find the "motivation" to get enthused about the burgers.
The Telegraph reported that Kilmer got so exasperated with the director that he walked off the set. Even as a year-old, it seems Kilmer had a hard time compromising his artistic integrity. It's no wonder that he's had a hard time adapting to some directors that he doesn't see eye to eye with.
Val Kilmer has been working in Hollywood for well over three decades at this point, so it shouldn't be shocking that he's turned down some major roles. Considering the versatility Kilmer has shown over the years, it's fun to imagine him in some of these films and how it would have altered the landscape of things in Hollywood.
When Val Kilmer's career was first kicking off, he was starting to develop a reputation as a hunky leading man. He was offered the lead role of Johnny in "Dirty Dancing," but he allegedly turned it down because he didn't want to be typecast.
The role eventually became one of the most iconic performances of Patrick Swayze's career. Speaking of hunky roles, Kilmer also turned down a part in "Interview with the Vampire.
One other major film that Kilmer and seemingly half of Hollywood rejected was "The Matrix. Kilmer was originally offered the main role of Neo. Later, when the Wachowskis were considering gender-swapping Neo and casting Sandra Bullock, Kilmer was offered the role of Morpheus. He turned down both offers.
Val Kilmer has had some absolutely iconic roles in his career, but his performance as Jim Morrison in "The Doors" is easily one of the best he's ever done.
He nails the look, he nails the mannerisms and he nails the voice. That's actually Kilmer himself singing those iconic songs, and he does it so well that even Morrison's band couldn't tell the difference between the two. Kilmer worked with music producer Paul Rothchild, who coached the actor on how best to perform as Jim Morrison.
Rothchild had pretty good authority to do so, as he produced every Doors album except their last one. Kilmer committed himself so much to the role that Rothchild later brought in some members of the actual band to sign off on his performance. He told the Orlando Sentinel that he would play tracks and randomly swap in Morrison or Kilmer's vocals and ask the band to say which was which.
The actual band "guessed wrong 80 percent of the time. If any of Kilmer's performances could be held up to "The Doors" as the actor's best role ever, his work in "Tombstone" is probably the closest. His Doc Holliday is so effortlessly cool, even in a movie full of great lines and incredible action scenes. The film's credited director, George P. Cosmatos, came in on very little prep time to run things. Kilmer told the Hollywood Reporter that Kurt Russell, who starred as Wyatt Earp , essentially directed the film, with Cosmatos serving more as a go-between for the studio and the set.
There's no evidence that Kilmer did anything directly to drive away the first director of "Tombstone," but one strange anecdote stands out. In a book about Kilmer's filmography, original director Kevin Jarre recalls : "We were deep in conversation about Doc Holliday and this stand-in brought over a very colorful locust and said, 'Look what I found!
And it was big. Val Kilmer has seen his share of tough times over the years, but few of the difficult events in his life could possibly compare to what he went through when he was 17 years old. He should have been riding high, as he was headed to the extremely prestigious Juilliard School to join their drama program.
The same year he joined Juilliard, Kilmer's younger brother, Wesley, died in a tragic accident.
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