Chapter 5: Tom Cruise & Val Kilmer Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions
Summary:
WIRED’s Autocomplete Interviews. YouTube, November 15, 2019.
“Hello. I am Tom Cruise.”
“And I am Val Kilmer and we´re doing a Wired autocomplete interview.”
They both smile.
Autocomplete suggests the most common searches on the internet.
“Let´s go.” Cruise looks slightly tense.
So WIRED asked Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer the Internet´s burning questions ahead of After the Winter´s premier.”
"After the Winter is the very long-awaited sequel of our 1997´s movie Heat” explains Kilmer.
“It will be in theaters this Christmas.” adds Cruise.
“Because it´s a family movie.”
Cruise looks at Kilmer stunned. Then to the camera with dazed expression.
“Sure! What he said.”
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Part 5 of: The Lies We Told Each Other
Fandoms: Actor RPF, Heat (1995)
Characters: Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise
Additional Tags:
Fake interviews, movie industry gossip, coming out
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WIRED’s Autocomplete Interviews. YouTube, November 15, 2019.
“Hello. I am Tom Cruise.”
“And I am Val Kilmer and we´re doing a Wired autocomplete interview.”
They both smile.
Autocomplete suggests the most common searches on the internet.
“Let´s go.” Cruise looks slightly tense.
So WIRED asked the stars of After the Winter the Internet´s burning questions
Kilmer looks off-screen, supposedly to the team, with his fingers already in the tape covering the first question.
“You guys ready?”
Panel 1 Val Kilmer
Where did Val Kilmer grew up
I grew up between the San Fernando Valley in California and New Mexico. Lots of contact with nature.
Where did Val Kilmer meet his wife
“I developed a teenage style crush on Joanne Whalley after seen her on stage at London, playing Dewey Dell in “As I Lay Dying” at the Cottesloe Theatre, in 1985. I carried the torch, pinning.”
“It was sad and funny to see.” Cruise says giggling, with a kind expression.
“Then, we met while working together on the film Willow, in 1988. She played warrior princess Sorsha, and I was Madmartigan, a mercenary that discovers romantic love and parental love at the same time. I made a fool of myself several times, until she realized I was madly in love with her and madly sad after losing my brother. So, she gave me time to get my act together.”
Where did Val Kilmer go to school
“In 1978 I was accepted into the Juilliard School's Drama Division, I´m a member of Group 10, the tenth graduation, from 1981. I was eighteen years old when left my house and got a bachelor diploma, so, I think it counts as going to college?”
What really happened to Val Kilmer
Kilmer raises his eyebrows, stares straight to camera with seductive pose.
“Well… I got sick and then got better.”
Panel 2 Tom Cruise
Can Tom Cruise really sing
“Well yeah. I mean, I did all my singing in Rock of Ages, so yes, I sing.”
“I see him do it.”
Can Tom Cruise rock climb
“Yes, I trained for a long time, many years actually, in rock climbing. I used to go with you.”
“Yes, we did. We should do it again.”
Can Tom Cruise play guitar
“I love playing guitar and the uke. I definitely need more practice, but I enjoy playing guitar.”
Can Tom Cruise hold his breath for 6 minutes
“Yes, I can hold my breath for six minutes. You were there when I was doing it.”
“You were in the tank in the studio in London. You´d swim back and forth in the bottom of the tank like four or five laps.”
“McQ ideas!”
“I´d be up on the surface with googles watching him. I wasn´t even working in the movie.”
“No, right, you were in London with your Mark Twain play.”
“Yes, but I wanted to watch Tom Cruise hold his breath for six minutes.”
Tom laughs.
Panel 3 Val Kilmer
What was Val Kilmer´s last movie
“Before the cancer diagnosis, my last movie was 2014´s Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, directed by Jo Kastner. After that, I made my third tour with the theater play Citizen Twain, saw you hold your breath for six minutes, and returned to my wife and children. After I recovered from cancer, I made The Super, a 2017 horror movie. My character is involved in black magic and other evil stuff.”
“I didn´t watch it. Sorry.”
“It´s okay. You were busy. So, this year we finally reunited with Michael Mann and made After the Winter, a sequel to Heat. I play Chris Shiherlis, boyfriend of Tom Cruise´s Charles Polesti.”
Cruise snorts.
“More like husband, at this point.”
What was Val Kilmer´s famous line in tombstone
“The line is “I’m your huckleberry”. I did not say, “I’m your huckle bearer.” In the context of the movie, “I’m your huckleberry” means “I’m your man. You’ve met your match.”
What was Val Kilmer´s best role
“Uh! That´s a hard one. I would say that the hardest characters I had played were Chris Shiherlis in Heat, Jim Morrison in his biopic, and William MacPherson, in Conspiracy.”
“I liked Conspiracy. The thing you did with your body to mimic the artificial leg.”
“My hip wasn´t happy, let me tell you. But Morrison got really inside me, it was difficult to let him go after.”
“It looked like you had a good time filming Heat.”
“Yeah, but the guy is an addict, always about to fall of the wagon, and madly in love. It´s a difficult character.”
What was Val Kilmer´s diagnosed with
“I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer. Since breast cancer is unusual in men, it a was late diagnose. Almost too late.”
Panel 4 Tom Cruise
What was Tom Cruise first movie
“The first movie I worked at was Endless love, by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt. Most people remember it for the song. Diana Ross and Lionel Richie sang a hit. The first character I truly feel like mine was David Shawn in Taps.”
What was Tom Cruise real name
“Thomas Cruise Mapother IV”
“It sounds like an aristocratic name.”
“Meh. Lack of imagination, nothing more.”
What was Tom Cruise´s first wife´s name
“My first wife was Nicole Kidman. Great Australian actress. Check her work!”
“You know?” says Kilmer thoughtful. “I suspect that question refers to Mimi.”
“Mimi Rogers? We were never…” he seems to realize something. “Oh!” Cruise looks at the camera. “No, Mimi Rogers and I are only friends. I had a terrible personal loss in 1987 and she is a fellow member of my church. The church assigned her as my mourning companion. It was necessary, I was really, really wounded,” he looks briefly to Kilmer, who gives him a sad smile. “In 1989 my therapist said I was out of depression and the church relieve her from the mission.”
What was Tom Cruise´s big break
“Usually, critics say it was Risky Business. I feel that I broke from the pack in The Outsiders, you know? Working with Coppola puts all of us in the map.”
“Nah, I was told by a very reliable source that your butt dance in Risky Business was paramount to your career.”
Cruise covers his face with a hand while laughing.
Panel 5 Val Kilmer
Is Val Kilmer still alive
He smiles to the camera.
“Yeah.”
Is Val Kilmer married now
“I am, lucky me! Joanne and I married in 1989. We divorce in 1996. In 2005 she decided I had grown enough to deserve a second chance. We have been together ever since.”
Is Val Kilmer still acting
“Again, yeah. I stop to deal with cancer, of course, but here I am.”
Is Val Kilmer´s son an actor
“Yes. Jack is an actor. He had work mostly in short films. Last year he was in Lords of Chaos. He played a fictional version of Per Yngve "Pelle" Ohlin, a Swedish musician, lead vocalist and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.”
“So, he played this Pelle Ohlin character like you played Jim Morrison?”
“I mean…” Kilmer seems shocked by the question. “Jonas Åkerlund isn´t Oliver Stone,” he smiles awkwardly to the camera.
Panel 6 Tom Cruise
Why is Tom Cruise always running
“I´m usually in a big hurry to get places, lots to do in the day.”
“But not when you are Charles Polesti.”
“No. Charles Polesti is a sophisticated guy. He never runs, except...”
“Except for Dominik, of course. It makes me jealous.”
“Don´t be silly Chris. I love you too.”
Why is Tom Cruise always named jack
“Because is easy for me to remember and for others to remember. So, makes it easier for the crew and the director.”
Why did Tom Cruise become a director
“I just love movies and I wanted to make movies. I remember as a kid I used to create characters and write skits and did outrageous physical stunts.”
“I can only imagine what would be for your mother. Just look out the window while you’re doing the dishes and there´s your seven-year-old son like trying a stunt and breaking an arm or a leg.”
Tom laughs.
“You say that because you had that experience.”
“Yes, but I was twenty-five, an actor used to crazy things going on, and you still scared me to death. You were injuring yourself all the time.”
“My mother most definitely had incredible patience. Then, one day you send me a book you said it would be a great movie. I agreed with you but couldn’t find a director to do it. After another frustrating rejection I thought, well, I´ll do it myself.”
Did Tom Cruise really hang off the plane
“Yes, I did hang off the A-400. I remember the second take, actually, I got hit by just a little, little, rock. I mean, it must have been about that big and, honestly, it was like getting hit by a bullet. But the thing I was most concerned about was the fuel. You know, the fumes from in the air that was hitting me, particularly on them when we were taxing on the runway because it had nowhere else to go. It´s quite an adventure. Don´t necessarily recommend it for everyone.”
Val snorts. Tom ignores him.
Panel 7 Val Kilmer
Does Val Kilmer have cancer
“No anymore. I am happily cancer free since 2016. It was a brutal process, but here I am.”
Does Val Kilmer sing in the doors
“Yes, I do. I have a vocal register very similar to Morrison´s. I was fascinated by domestic video cameras at the time and wanted the role, so to convince Stone that I was right for the role, I made an eight-minute audition video, singing and looking like Morrison at various stages of his life. After I got the role, I lost weight and spent six months rehearsing and meeting with Morrison´s colleagues.”
“I remember when Stone got the Doors to hear your recordings of the songs they will use in the film. They could not tell whether it was yours or Morrison's voice.”
Does Val Kilmer have a daughter
“My beautiful Mercedes. Smarter than her dad. She is actress and producer.”
Does Val Kilmer sing in top secret
“Yes, I do. To this day I have difficult explaining Top Secret plot or genre. I play an American rock star way out of touch with political reality, and he sings to save his life.”
Panel 8 Tom Cruise
Does Tom Cruise see suri
“Yes, of course I see her, she is my daughter. Katie and I share custody and arrange Suri´s schedule in each house to support each other careers.”
Does Tom Cruise have kids
“Yeah, I have three children: Isabella Jane, Connor and Suri.”
Does Tom Cruise have a girlfriend
“No.”
Does Tom Cruise have an Oscar
“I have two Oscars, actually,” he is clearly proud. “The first was in 1998, for my role of Charles Polesti in Heat. Thanks to Michael Mann, the amazing cast and crew. The second was the 2017 Best Movie Oscar for Top Gun, that I directed.”
Does Tom Cruise own a p51
“Yes. I love flying and bought a P-51 Mustang plane a few years back.”
Panel 9 Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer movies
“A lot?” he laughs. “I honestly can't tell how many out of the blue.”
Val Kilmer Batman
“I made Batman Forever in 1995. It was the third movie of the character. I took the torch from Michael Keaton, but the experience wasn´t very happy.”
“That´s an understatement. You would call almost every night to complain.”
“What can I say? Schumacher and I had creative differences. The suit was torture. The script was silly. I had started full of joy, thinking of playing my childhood hero, but the magic, the dark thrilling aura Tim Burton had put in the first two films had evaporated under Warner Brothers greed. Halfway through filming just I give up and just did it like a TV soap opera. Which, for my eternal confusion, became sort of iconic.”
“Yeah, that thing you do with your hands in your waist.”
Val Kilmer Tombstone
“Tombstone is a western I made in 1993. An estrange experience because the first director was fired and we end up in a four hands directorial arrangement between Kurt Russell, who had never directed before, and George Cosmatos, the director assigned by the studio. Kurt Russell plays Wyatt Earp, and I was one of his sidekicks, Doc Hollyday. It was a great movie, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany. It was a gamble. In those days, the western was supposed to be dead, and the script overall tone was grim. Is not a happy ending epic western. But people like it.”
Val Kilmer height
He seems honestly dazed for the first time.
“People goggles the most bizarre things. I´m five feet and twelve inches. For our international audience, that´s one hundred and eighty-two centimeters.”
Val Kilmer doc hollyday
“Well, Doc Hollyday is the character I played in Tombstone. He was a real person, John Henry Holliday a dentist, gambler and gunfighter, close friend of Wyatt Earp. He was diagnosed tuberculosis in his early twenties and lived around fifteen years with the disease. In my take on the character, I gave him a genteel Southern accent and some arbitrary pauses in the speech, because he was always out of breath.”
Panel 10 Tom Cruise
Is Tom Cruise married
“No, I´m not married now.”
Is Tom Cruise a pilot
“Yes. I fly airplanes. I´m a multi-engine instrument-rated commercial pilot.”
Is Tom Cruise in tropic thunder
“Yes. I play Les Grossman, a studio executive. He is bald, fat, ill-tempered, profane, loves to dance and sexually harass his clients. He is a monster.”
Kilmer gives Cruise a knowingly look.
“You know? Now you can say it.”
Cruise raises his eyebrows, surprised.
“You´re right!” He looks at the camera very seriously. “I based Les Grossman in Harvey Weinstein.”
Is Tom Cruise gay
Cruise looks dumbfounded to the panel, then above the camera, to the team. Kilmer shakes from poorly contained laughter.
“I told you about this,” he says, clearly amused.
“Yeah, you did,” admits Cruise staring at the panel in disbelief. “But I didn´t believe you.”
He looks out of camera again.
“You didn´t like…edit it?”
Off-screen voice.
“No, mister Cruise. It´s the real Google autocomplete question.”
Cruise shakes his head, clearly upset. Kilmer looks worried now.
“If you´re uncomfortable…” but Cruise speaks before he can finish.
“I´m not gay. I´m bisexual.”
Is Tom Cruise dating anyone
Cruise sights.
“Not a surprise at this point. Yes, I´m dating again after seven years. He is very smart and very sweet.”
“I like him. He makes you happy.”
Cruise rolls his eyes, but smiles.
“He doesn´t need more ego boost, Val.”
Panel 11 common
Are Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise friends
“Yeah. We had been friends since… 1983. Wow, it´s weird to say it aloud.”
“You were doing All the right moves, in New England.”
“Johnstown, Pennsylvania, yeah.”
“And my brother was a producer assistant there. So, I was waiting for the Top Secret´s principal photography to start and went to visit him. He knew I had liked The Outsiders, like, a lot, and offer to introduce us.”
“We had dinner in my hotel room, because it was supper late.”
“Terrible dinner. Wonderful conversation.”
Cruise shrugs.
“Story of my life with your family.”
They look at each other and laugh.
Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise kissing in Heat
“That isn´t a question,” states Cruise.
“It’s a reference,” Kilmer says while he nods. “We do kiss in Heat. I mean, we were playing a couple in the honeymoon phase, so, yeah, we kiss and touch a lot.”
Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise relationship
Cruise looks kind of confused. Kilmer giggles.
“I mean, we´re friends? Is this related to people googling if I´m gay?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
Cruise shakes his head.
“Man, this is so weird.”
Are Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise lovers
Cruise swallows dry and looks at the floor. Kilmer answers looking straight to the camera.
“No, we play lovers in Heat and our new movie, After the Winter, but we are not lovers. Never been.”
Cruise seems to recover and raise his head.
“That would be super awkward. Considering I was your brother-in-law.”
Kilmer smiles.
“And my wife would be very annoyed,” he throws away the last panel.
Cruise hums.
“My boyfriend would be to. But Joane liked the movie?”
“Yes, definitely. She and I love playing dramas and deep, complicated characters. And the thing I loved in Heat, and now in After the Winter, is the interest first and foremost in character development.”
“Val,” he smiles “you are obsessed with Shiherlis and Polesti´s story. You annoy me, your wife, your agent, my agent, Michael Mann, our friends, and everyone in Hollywood for literally nineteen years, until we made a sequel.”
“I wanted to work again with you and Michael,” he looks to the camera. “When you are with Tom Cruise in a movie you know you´re gonna get something incredible from it. Always.”
“That´s what we try. We just want to entertain you. That really is the purpose so, you know, we hope you came to see After the Winter. The long…”
“Very long-awaited sequel,” cuts Kilmer.
“... of Heat. After the Winter will be in theaters this Christmas.”
“Because it´s a family movie.”
Cruise looks at Kilmer stunned. Then to the camera with dazed expression.
“Sure! What he said.”
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