Val Kilmer Was Forced Into Doing Top Gun

It’s almost impossible to imagine a timeline where Val Kilmer didn’t portray Tom “Iceman” Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise’s Peter “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun (1986).

Pluck anyone off the streets and ask them to list Kilmer’s best known roles: Iceman would arguably rank as his most iconic – right above Jim Morrison in The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Simon Templar in The Saint, Chris Shiherlis in Heat, and dare I say it, Bruce Wayne / The Dark Knight in Batman…