“Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski fondly recalled the moment Val Kilmer discovered the scene he shares with Tom Cruise.
This is one of the most beautiful moments of Top Gun: Maverick, the big cinematic success of this year 2022. When Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer) find themselves at the latter’s house, weakened by the disease, and that the two men share a particularly intense and moving moment.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, recalled the moment Val Kilmer discovered this famous scene. Minutes particularly charged with emotion.
“Tom Cruise was involved throughout the creative process of this scene, how to shape it, how to build it. There was never really a point where we got to show him the finished scene, but he was there during its entire evolution and is obviously a key element”says Kosinski first about the famous sequence.
This is the most moving scene of Top Gun Maverick: Tom Cruise finds Val kilmer, weakened by illness
“But I remember the first time I showed the scene to Val Kilmer”continues the filmmaker. “It’s a very specific memory for me, because Val came to see us to watch parts of the film. There was this scene with Tom Cruise that I wanted him to see and we were obviously all a little nervous to show him , simply because we wanted him to love her.”
“But Val’s reaction was superb”concludes Joseph Kosinski. “He was so happy and so moved by this scene that it did us all a lot of good. It made us realize that, perhaps, we had done this the right way.”
Top Gun: Maverick attracted more than 6.3 million viewers in French theaters. Worldwide, the feature film brought in more than $1.4 billion in revenue.
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