The late Val Kilmer had a darkish humorousness when it got here to present giving.
In a January 2024 interview with GQ, Kurt Russell revealed that he and Kilmer, who died on April 1 on the age of 65, exchanged fairly darkish presents after wrapping filming on their 1993 Western, Tombstone.
Chatting with GQ, Russell, 74, mentioned that actors used to trade presents after wrapping filming, regardless of it not being a “necessary gesture.”
“When you’re asking me if it was nice working with Val Kilmer, who performed Doc Holliday on Tombstone, the reply is completely,” Russell, who portrayed Wyatt Earp within the film, mentioned.
“In these days, particularly whenever you have been working with individuals, typically on the finish of the present you’d get them presents or commerce presents,” he continued. “It’s not necessary, it’s not one thing that you just gotta do or that they’ve gotta do.”
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Russell revealed that he requested his driver if he might “get a maintain” of Kilmer’s holster, gun, hat and chair “together with his identify on the again” from the film.
“Take an image, after which in that image I wished to have this factor,” the Hollywood icon defined.
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Russell went on to share that he gifted Kilmer a burial plot in Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona, a cemetery the place many well-known figures of the Previous West have been laid to relaxation.
“I give Val this current and he appears at me and he turns to his driver and he says, ‘Give it to me.’ As a result of what I had gotten Val was a plot at Boothill, what Val had gotten me was an acre of land overlooking Boothill.”
“Doc Holliday was all about dying, however Wyatt’s all about life,” Russell mentioned with amusing. “I assume that just about says all of it.”
Kilmer’s daughter Mercedes confirmed to The New York Times that he died of pneumonia on Tuesday. He was beforehand identified with throat most cancers in 2014 and later recovered, the 33-year-old added.
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Many stars have paid tribute to the late actor following the information of his dying, together with Josh Gad.
The Goonies star Josh Brolin shared a photograph with Kilmer on Instagram with the caption, “See ya, pal. I’ll miss you. You have been a wise, difficult, courageous, uber-creative firecracker.”
Stranger Issues actor Matthew Modine additionally wrote on X, “RIP Val Kilmer. If it wasn’t for our likelihood encounter on the Supply in 1985, I could by no means have been solid in FULL METAL JACKET. Thanks, Val.”
