Val Kilmer never puked in a Top Gun jet, but he did once stalk Stanley Kubrick
With everything going on right now in the world, you could be forgiven for missing today’s perhaps most important news: Val Kilmer has a new memoir out, and it’s pretty damn bonkers. I’m Your Huckleberry is a decent, if incomplete, look back on the actor’s career, but it certainly isn’t lacking in massive amounts of weirdness. Case in point: This excerpt featured today over at The Daily Beast, which recounts Kilmer’s experience filming Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise and director Tony Scott.
Among the sample’s many, many things worth noting: Kilmer loves fisherman’s vests, quotes Ezra Pound, and initially wanted nothing to do with the film pretty much until Tony Scott imitated fighter jet noises for him. He also was the only dude on the cast to not puke after flying alongside navy pilots.
“We all went up in the jets several times and—here comes more vanity—I have to report that I was the only one who didn’t regurgitate, which, given the gut-wrenching drops and spins of those ferocious flights, was no mean feat,” Kilmer writes.