Val Kilmer asked Will to do the extraordinary race with him: their agents said “no” and strong calls him his biggest regret

Snl actor Strong He wrote an emotional essay in first person for vulture in which he reflected on his friendship with the deceased Val Kilmerwho starred with him in his 2010 comedy based on sketch Macgruber. Kilmer recited how the evil Dieter von Cunth. According to Forte, Kilmer “literally gave me the shirt from the back” while on the set.

Macgruber It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between the two actors. Forte writes that when Kilmer “was organizing a dispute with his landlord” in Malibu, California, he asked if he could move.

Strong and Kilmer then lived together for two and a half months. It was during this period that Forto introduced Kilmer to television of reality, in particular The Amazing racein which Kilmer “has really become”.

“So, at some point, he said: ‘Will, you and I have to go The Amazing race. We have to. We do The Amazing race“Writes Forte di Kilmer.

“I am like” I’m so fully inside. “We are really enthusiastic about it, and then we called our respective agents and managers, and they were like” there is no way that you guys are doing it “.

That is, perhaps to date, the greatest regret of my whole career – that I have never done it The Amazing race With Val. I think we would have come out very quickly, but it would have been only the experience of a life, “he added Forte on what he could have been.

“I would like to have more time to remember the old stories,” he adds later. “There are so many memories that I am leaving out. I am sure we talked about collaborating on other things together, but nothing really serious … it has always been like, ‘oh, I go to do this for Francis Ford Coppola’ or something like that. MacgruberBut I didn’t know if I would have had lucky enough to work again with him. I decided to be his roommate. “

In the wake of Kilmer’s death, countless tributes were poured by his famous co-protagonists and directors. Tom Cruisewho starred with Kilmer in the iconic movie Top gunIt was at the cinema with this week to promote Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning And he asked for a moment of silence in honor of Kilmer.

“I would like to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer,” said Cruise from the stage of Caesars Palace. “I can’t tell you how much I admire his job, how grateful and honored I was when he joined Top gun And he returned later for Top Gun: Maverick… I wish you every good on the next trip. “

Kilmer seemed really an exceptional boy, and it’s nice to hear these stories from the people he was close to.

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