Kilmer was cast in the lead role and his interpretation, we were soon to find, was rakish and cocksure, rebellious and pouting. A Brando interpretation of the Melancholy Dane, if you will; ...

The first thing I learned, at a very young age, was that if I was to succeed at what I did, I had to be willing to take risks ...

As Rolling Stone noted in our 10 Essential Movies list, Val Kilmer was a “Juilliard graduate, a movie star, an actor who could play anything from fantasy heroes to flyboy villains, bank robbers ...