Tom Cruise honored the late Val Kilmer with a second of silence on the CinemaCon stage in Las Vegas, asking the group of exhibitors and press to take a second to recollect all the nice movie moments Kilmer gave audiences in his profession and the “fantastic occasions we had with him.”
“I’d wish to take a second to honor a pricey good friend of mine, Val Kilmer,” Cruise stated. “I actually can’t let you know how a lot I like his work, how a lot I considered him as a human being and the way grateful and honored I used to be when he joined ‘High Gun’ and got here again for ‘High Gun: Maverick.’”
Kilmer died on Tuesday at age 65, dying of pneumonia after having beforehand struggled with throat most cancers that made it extremely troublesome to talk. He had recovered sufficient to look in 2022’s “High Gun: Maverick.”
Cruise, who took the stage throughout Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon to advertise “Mission: Inconceivable — The Last Reckoning,” additionally instructed a prolonged story about his good friend Christopher McQuarrie, who is nicknamed “McQ,” and the large affect he’s had on the “Mission” franchise relationship all the way in which again to “Ghost Protocol” and arising with the “Blue is glue, Crimson is useless” line. McQuarrie was honored with CinemaCon’s Director of the Yr prize at CinemaCon. Cruise even clarified that McQuarrie will not be in reality Jonathan Lipnicki, the boy Cruise shared the display screen with in “Jerry Maguire,” regardless of the 2 of them and their glasses making them look strikingly alike.
Cruise additionally shouted out his good friend Brad Pitt for his work with “High Gun Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski on the upcoming “F1,” saying that Pitt is a superb racer and the 2 of them beforehand raced go-karts whereas on the set of “Interview with a Vampire.”
Hollywood showered the late Kilmer with reward this week, remembering his work in movies like “Batman Eternally,” “The Doorways,” “Tombstone,” “True Romance,” “Warmth,” and plenty of extra classics. Amongst tributes from Josh Brolin, Matthew Modine, Michael Mann, and extra, Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Kilmer in 2011 movie “Twixt,” wrote, “Val Kilmer was probably the most proficient actor when in his Excessive College, and that expertise solely grew higher all through his life. He was an exquisite individual to work with and a pleasure to know — I’ll at all times bear in mind him.”