This is the tragic reason why 'Iceman' and El Kilmer hardly returned for the sequel to "Love in the Sky"

The 1980s blockbuster film "Love in the Sky" is already starring in theaters, and while Tom Cruise returned to play Navy pilot Captain "Maverick," his colleague Val Kilmer won only a short, textless guest role.

And there is a very painful reason for that

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21/05/2022

Saturday, 21 May 2022, 23:46 Updated: 23:49

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Trailer for the movie "Love In The Sky: From Warrick" (Film Forum)

"Love in the Sky" fans are invited to board the flight and fasten their seatbelts, because the sequel "Love in the Sky: Maverick" was released this weekend - exactly 36 years since the original film landed in theaters and became one of the big box office hits of the 80s.

Tom Cruise is back to play his immortal character, Navy pilot Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and to our delight we also get to see what happened to his nemesis, Lieutenant Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, played by actor and Al Kilmer.

Fans of the film wondered why Val Kilmer appears almost last on the cast list and found that he returns to a short and almost textless role.

The reason for this was that some of them shed a tear.

So yes, the good news is that we see Maverick and Iceman in the new movie and find out what happened to them.

These are the least good news for us that the 62-year-old actor Val Kilmer has returned to the role after losing his voice as a result of life-saving surgery he underwent after suffering from throat cancer.

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That's how we remember him

Val Kilmer in "Love in the Sky" (Photo: Giphy)

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And this is what he looks like today:

Val Kilmer, 2021 (Photo: Screenshot, Facebook)

The film was released over the weekend, and has already garnered rave reviews from critics for telling a very charged scene of Val "Iceman" with Tom "Maverick."

The original film made Val, an anonymous actor until then, one of Hollywood's hottest stars.

He dated singer Sher, supermodel Cindy Crawford and actresses Daryl Hannah and Angelina Jolie.

However, the reputation of a person who is hard to work with, financial troubles and the fight against cancer have seemingly ruined any hope of seeing him on the big screen again.

To our surprise, new artificial sound technology gave him the ability to speak again.

It was a difficult task to convince the producers of "Love in the Sky" that Kilmer was fit to return to his role.

And do not insist - and rightly so - that there is no "love in the sky" without Iceman.

He said: "Tom was Maverick, but his enemy was Iceman. The two were like salt and pepper. It does not matter that the producers did not contact me. As The Temptations sang in the glory days of Motown Sound, '' Ain ''

There is no "love in the sky" without Iceman (Photo: Giphy)

"Tom was Maverick, but his enemy was Iceman. The two were like salt and pepper" (Photo: Giphy)

That was certainly not Val's approach three decades ago, when he got the script for director Tony Scott's film about conscripts to the U.S. Navy's Armed Forces.

The 26-year-old actor at the time thought it was "stupid" and accepted the role only because he was under contract with the studio.

At this point, Val has only appeared in two comedies, "Top Secret" and "True Genius."

The inexperienced actor did not make life easy for them.

He added lines to the script and created unnecessary tension with his film partner, Tom.

He reportedly set up a camp for the "Iceman Group" to compete on either side of Maverick, and went out to celebrate while Tom diligently studied his script.

Val said: "Tom avoided our celebrations, for good reason. From day one he was focused on one goal - to become the greatest action hero in the history of cinema."

His acceptance into the role proved to be a success for Wall, as the film became a 1986 blockbuster hit and Wall's line, "You can be my wingman at any time" ("you can be my wingman any time") is well rooted in pop culture.

Two years later, Wall met his wife, British actress Joan Wally (now 60), on the set of the fantasy film "Willow".

The two had two children, Mercedes, now 30, and Jack, 26.

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Val Kilmer in the movie "Top Secret" (Photo: Giphy)

"I will never work with Val Kilmer again"

Val's insistence on his exceptional method of play - in which the actor remained in character for long periods - caused problems both in his marriage and in the players who worked alongside him.

For a full year in 1991 he played the tragic rock singer Jim Morrison in "The Doors."

He did not leave the figure when he returned home or took off the same leather pants identified with his figure.

During an audition for Oliver Stone's film, and Al so "lived the role" he allegedly "hit" actress Caitlin O'Hinny, which later led to a financial settlement.

"Batman Forever" (1995) director Joel Schumacher described Val - who only once played the crusader in a robe - as "psychotic", and after starring in the science fiction film "Dr. Morrow's Mystery Island" a year later, His other director, John Frankenheimer, said: "There are two things I will never do in my life: I will never climb Mount Everest and I will never work with Val Kilmer again."

And Al admits he crossed red lines occasionally.

In a recent documentary about his life and career, he defended himself and said, "I behaved badly, I behaved bravely, I behaved strangely to some of them."

His actress daughter, Mercedes, who is so close to her father that she insists on living in an apartment next to him in California, said: "He has a reputation as a tough guy, that it's worthy and unworthy."

Val is now in constant contact with the mother of his children, despite their difficult separation in 1996.

The actor claimed he learned that Joan had left him through news reports.

In 2011 she also sued him for non-payment of alimony, allegedly.

Recently, however, he said of her: "Joan and I have a tremendous respect for each other, and she was and still is a huge part of my life."

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in "The Doors" (Photo: Giphy)

Dealing with cancer

Kilmar has been surprisingly single for several decades.

In an interview about two years ago, he said: "I have not had a partner for 20 years. The truth is that a large part of my day I am alone."

The former girlfriend, Sher, with whom he dated in 1981 before becoming famous, proved to be a crucial figure in the life-saving cancer treatment he received.

In 2015, the player had no money and was living alone after a property deal in New Mexico cost him millions of dollars in the 2008 financial crisis.

"I assumed it was the day I died," he wrote in his autobiography I'm Your Huckleberry.

He underwent a tracheostomy - a surgical procedure in which an opening is made in the front of the neck into the trachea to help the patient breathe - at the nearby Santa Monica Hospital.

However, he needed ongoing treatment and his girlfriend Sher was the one who organized his transfer to David Geffen Medical School, known for his cancer research.

For two months he went to chemotherapy and radiation before moving to a guest house in Malibu for rehabilitation.

He wrote: "Once a minister makes her way into your head and heart, she never leaves."

Val Kilmer reading the play "The Merchant of Venice, Los Angeles, October 28, 2019" (Photo: GettyImages, Amanda Edwards)

When his friend Michael Douglas revealed in 2016 that Val had cancer, he denied it - before revealing the truth a year later.

These days Val is more open about dealing with the disease.

Footage from his documentary, showed Val vomiting after signing for fans while in a wheelchair at the Comics fan conference in London.

Val, who was raised according to the values ​​of Christian science by his parents, attributes to God the right to his recovery from cancer and not to the right to medicine.

He said in an interview that his faith healed him "much faster than all the doctors had predicted."

Adherents of Christian science believe that diseases, including cancer, do not really exist and are the result of negative thoughts.

The actor said: "There is no good or bad thing, but thinking makes it so. I prayed - and that was my form of treatment."

Val Kilmer in "Love in the Sky: Maverick" (Photo: Film Forum)

What a questioner will not be able to deny is that science has been a major player in returning his voice.

A technology company called Sonantic used the actor's old voice recordings and artificial intelligence to turn them into words spoken through a speaker.

Val said: "I suffered from throat cancer. After treatment, my voice as I knew it was taken from me. People around me struggle to understand me when I speak. Despite all this I still feel like I am the exact same person."

Val does not wear scarves to cover his trachea and is often seen with a swollen face, but he insists he feels much healthier than he looks.

The trailer for the documentary about Val Kilmer:

The ability to speak again allowed him to return to playing Iceman, older and smarter, in "Love in the Sky: Maverick."

In the new film his character is the Admiral in command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet who is on a more friendly relationship with the senior test pilot Maverick, who is trying to evade a promotion that will ground him.

Although Valle does not have many lines in the film this time, he is excited to return to the character.

He concludes: "The characters never really disappear. They are alive, in a deep freeze."

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