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Val Kilmer’s Extreme Method Acting Technique Resurfaces Amid Death; Actor Filled His Bed With Ice For THIS Film
Val Kilmer once filled his bed with ice for a scene in the 1993 Western movie Tombstone. The actor once revealed what prompted him to transition into the method acting approach!
Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of death.
Val Kilmer, known for his roles in Top Gun and The Doors among others, died of pneumonia at 65 on April 1. He cemented himself as one of the legendary actors not only for his performances but also for the extreme lengths he would go to practice method acting.
The actor starred in the 1993 American Western film Tombstone and immersed himself in his role. To prepare himself for the character, a charismatic and hard-drinking gambler named Doc Holiday, Kilmer took extreme measures.
According to Bloomberg, he “filled his bed with ice for the final scene to mimic the feeling of dying from tuberculosis.” The cult classic movie is considered to be one of Kilmer’s memorable roles. It also starred Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany.
The Batman Forever actor admitted in his memoir I’m Your Huckleberry that he was considered a difficult person to work with. He revealed that in his “unflinching” attempt to empower the cast and crew and to honor the true essence of each project, he opted for the method acting approach.
“I had been deemed difficult and alienated the head of every major studio,” Kilmer claimed in her memoir. Before his sudden demise, he had overcome a long battle with throat cancer. In his memoir, the actor detailed the effects of cancer on his body and revealed how his ex-flame Cher helped him through the diagnosis.
In 2014, he was diagnosed with cancer, and after decades of battle with the disease, he finally beat it. He reprised his role of Iceman in the 2022 movie Top Gun: Maverick. "(Kilmer's) voice was digitally altered and blended a little bit just for clarity,” director Joseph Kosinski told US Today at the time.
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