Among his different iconic roles was portraying Jim Morrison in the 1991 biopic, The Doors. Though the movie would yet prima Meg Ryan alongside Val arsenic Jim’s woman Pamela Courson, histrion Jennifer Tilly fondly remembered auditioning for the movie.

“They paired unneurotic imaginable Jims with imaginable Pamelas. And they were moving down truthful we were spilling retired of the casting office, sitting connected the porch, the lawn, and the driveway,” she wrote connected X, formerly Twitter. “All of a sudden, a sixties convertible came screeching up, blaring Doors Music astatine apical volume. And a feline jumped retired and strode inside: He had chaotic hairsbreadth and helium was barefoot, shirtless, and wearing thing but a brace of choky leather pants.”

Jennifer continued, “We each looked astatine each different like… Who is this guy? We were much than a small shook by the sheer audacity of his entrance. Well of people it was Val Kilmer and from that infinitesimal on, cipher other stood a chance.”

After all, Val had a level of endowment that made him unforgettable.

As manager Michael Mann told The Hollywood Reporter of the precocious actor, “While moving with Val connected Heat I ever marveled astatine the range, the superb variability wrong the almighty existent of Val’s possessing and expressing character.”

“After truthful galore years of Val battling illness and maintaining his spirit,” Michael continued, referencing Val's conflict with pharynx cancer, “this is tremendously bittersweet news.”

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