The Top Gun star who crashed to earth: He seduced some of Hollywood’s great beauties. But Val Kilmer was also a ‘psychotic’ hellraiser loathed by directors: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
The polite word is ‘perfectionist’ but most people in Hollywood simply called Val Kilmer a pain in the backside. Kilmer, who has died aged 65 from pneumonia, following a painful battle with cancer, starred in a long list of blockbusters – including Top Gun opposite Tom Cruise, and Oliver Stone’s psychedelic rock biopic The Doors,
