![]() ![]() ![]() He name drops like an old pro, Willie and Brando to KRS1. on the set of his best film and calls him a “brother.” Wonder if Downey signs off on that? Kilmer’s “a poet,” a free spirit and a Brando-admiring “rebel” who parlayed fame into a lifestyle that was as Hollywood-free as possible, even as he gained that “reputation.” ![]() Some of it we gather from his similarities to one of the guys he played - Jim Morrison of The Doors. Actors by the nature of their profession like having too much drama in their personal lives, he explains. Some of that’s here, between the lines admissions, etc. Kilmer sprinted out of the gate faster than any actor of his generation. The fact that he played the lead in “Richard III” should tell you what a mercurial talent he was, even as a boy. and jabs “THE Julliard School,” where he was, at 16, “the youngest (actor) ever admitted (no idea if that’s true)” even as he owns up to being a ham, and hamming up his first role there. He owns up to the relative privilege of his childhood (Dad was a boom or bust business type), is generous about all the women he’s been linked to over the decades - Mare Winningham was his high school love, Cher, Joanne Whalley, etc. The way he skips by that suggests that maybe he doesn’t see that as a “tell.” Think he’ll dodge the “What happened to Val Kilmer?” question, about his looks and career? His health issues - throat cancer, bloating related to that - is right there in the prologue.įigure he won’t address his rep as “difficult” and a “diva?” That comes through in a sentence or two about his first professional teen acting gig, a commercial…that he WALKED out on. It’s not.īut it’s a breezy, sometimes self-effacing, sometimes egotistical peek under the hood of a fascinating figure in recent film history. Not that Val Kilmer’s “I’m Your Huckleberry” is all that confessional, or filled with gossip and Big Revelations. Here’s a film star memoir that took me by surprise. ![]()
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