Tom Cruise ‘Top Gun’ co-star Barry Tubb honours late Val Kilmer
It’s been practically per week for the reason that High Gun star Val Kilmer handed away on the age of 65. But, tributes proceed to pour in from his Hollywood fraternity in remembrance of the long-lasting actor.
After Tom Cruise honoured his High Gun enemy-turned-wingman with a second of silence on the CinemaCon two days following Kilmer’s demise attributable to pneumonia, one other actor from the 1986 traditional has shared his reminiscences of the late star.
Barry Tubb, who performed Wolfman— the wingman to Kilmer’s well-known Iceman— reminisced about his time with the Batman Without end actor whereas making the unique High Gun.
“He was the coolest cat I’ve ever met,” Tubb, 62, stated in a heartfelt tribute, per BBC. “Not only did he have great acting chops, but he was funny as hell.”
He described The Doorways actor and himself as “goofballs,” recalling a playful reminiscence of recording everybody utilizing the restroom with Kilmer’s private video digicam.
“He had the first video camera I’d ever seen. They got so tired of telling him to turn it off on the set of Top Gun that they finally just let it go,” he recounted. “We had a fun time with it because we tried to catch everyone on the toilet with the video camera.”
Whereas Tubb did not seem within the 2023 sequel, High Gun: Maverick, Cruise, 62, and Kilmer reunited within the movie for an emotional scene.
