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. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Cruise) and Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky (Kilmer).
The moment is informed by years of friendship both in the script and in real life — and by Kilmer's real-life health struggles.
