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    Val Kilmer explains his 'Top Gun: Maverick' return and 'authentic friendship' with Tom Cruise

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Jun 14, 2022 3 minutes
    The heroes return: Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in“ Top Gun: Maverick.” Kilmer says the onscreen reunion had been in the works for years but no reunion was necessary offscreen, as the two actors had remained friends since the first "Top Gun" movie was made.

    The Iceman cometh again, this time as a friend. And as Val Kilmer tells The Times, "I can't believe how kind the whole world has been. ... It's very humbling."

    The box-office standout of the summer season so far, "Top Gun: Maverick" has already become Tom Cruise's biggest domestic grosser and blown audiences away with its aerial action sequences. But perhaps the most memorable — almost certainly the most moving — scene in the film is the quiet reunion of onetime rivals, now closest of comrades: Capt.

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