It’s been nearly a week since the Top Gun star Val Kilmer passed away at the age of 65. Yet, tributes continue to pour in from his Hollywood fraternity in remembrance of the iconic actor.
After Tom Cruise honoured his Top Gun enemy-turned-wingman with a moment of silence at the CinemaCon two days following Kilmer’s death due to pneumonia, another actor from the 1986 classic has shared his memories of the late star.
Barry Tubb, who played Wolfman— the wingman to Kilmer’s famous Iceman— reminisced about his time with the Batman Forever actor while making the original Top Gun.
“He was the coolest cat I’ve ever met,” Tubb, 62, said in a heartfelt tribute, per BBC. “Not only did he have great acting chops, but he was funny as hell.”
He described The Doors actor and himself as “goofballs,” recalling a playful memory of recording everyone using the restroom with Kilmer’s personal video camera.
“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.”
While Tubb didn’t appear in the 2023 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise, 62, and Kilmer reunited in the film for an emotional scene.
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