❤️ Jonesy & Amanda Pay Tribute To Val Kilmer

The veteran movie star, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, died from pneumonia, his daughter Mercedes told the publication.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nations sad news though with the passing
of Val Kilner.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, at the age of sixty five. The first time
I ever saw him, I was in Remember Top Secret.
It was such a funny film. He played a spy?
Was he playing the spy? But the film was so funny.
It was filled with one thousand one liners, a thousand
sight gags. He's just a snippet. I'm sorry, I really

(00:28):
don't know any Germans. That's all right, I know it
is German. He's staying over there, a German dwarf person.
I thought that was That movie was hilarious, and it
had all those sight gags where someone's looking through a
magnifying glass and their eyes enormous and actually takes the
magnifying glass away and the eye is actually just enormous.
That stuff has been.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
It was a kind of a poor man's Naked Gun.
It was before naked the police squad was before which
begat naked gun.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, this is you wented the cinema and you laughed
your health. Those were the days. That's the first time.
But obviously he went on. He's a very brooding, serious
actor and he wasn't easy for everyone to work with.
I know that Frankenhamer, who worked on the Island of
Doctor Moreau, has said, there are two things I will
never do in my whole life. The first is climb Everest.
The second is work again with Welcolm.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
He was difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
He wasn't an easy man, but he did very well.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
What about him as he started to as Jim Morrison
in the movie The Doors, he was glad again.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
The ceremony is about to begin. He was so good
in that he learned to see him a year learning
to sing like Jim Morrison.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I watched that movie again because apparently I was trying
to look for it. In it, Meg Ryan, there's a
scene but she breaks character and she calls him vow
by accident instead of calling him Jim, and.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
They left it in because they didn't notice.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I just thought they thought that the scene was so
good that I know what I notice now about YouTube.
Back then he was great. What about Batman? He was
in Batman?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
How do you forget about that?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I have a riddle for you.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
So he's after Michael Keaton and Jim Carrey without seeing
to me Darkness.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And Nicole Kitman was in it as well as Professor
Something you're right, Yeah, it's not about you. Jim.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, then after him we got George Clooney, so he
kind of man with nipples.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
But really the most endearing scenes are from Top Gun,
where he played iceman.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Guys really are cowboys.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
What's your problem because as you're everyone's problem. That's because
every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe.
I don't like you because you're dangerous.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's right, nice.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Man, And then they do that whole thing, and then
they become each other's wingman. And then Maverick the late
most recent.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Emotional wasn't it? And vowed by then obviously had cancer
and he didn't look well, and they used his actual
voice and it was It was quite emotional. The navy
eats Averick, the kid neat Maverick. That's why I fought

(03:08):
for you. That's why you're still here. Another man hugged,
thank you for everything. One last thing. Who's the better violot?
You were me? There's a nice moment.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
That's not a lot of grown men walking out of
the cinema just in floods of tears.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know who one of his girlfriends was years ago?
Share Share Yes, you're probably the only person who hasn't
been a boyfriend of Shares. Let me just check the list. No,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
What did Share say about it?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, she said that she was mad in love with
him and he dropped her. Really not many men have
dropped Share, she said, and he was one of them.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Rest in thank you, Val, Thank you for your service
to the cinematic community.