“Top Gun” is Tom Cruise’s movie, but Maverick never could have soared without Lieutenant Tom “Iceman” Kazansky goading him on.
The same could be said of the film’s decades-in-the-making sequel: Without Val Kilmer reprising his role, “Top Gun: Maverick” wouldn’t have flown so high.
‘I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, “… I drank what?”‘
The 2022 film proved to be Kilmer’s last. Robbed of the ability to speak by throat cancer, Kilmer still managed to summon that old chemistry with Cruise. Rivals turned friends, but still marked by their differences: the tightly controlled perfectionist vs. the showboating risk-taker.
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The Iceman goeth
Observe the two men’s careers, and you notice that the roles are reversed. Cruise is the meticulous planner,
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