
I’m still recovering, and it’s difficult to talk and be understood.” Jack Kilmer, Val Kilmer’s son, narrates the new documentary about his father called “Val.” © 2020 A24 DISTRIBUTION, LLC. Though I healed quickly from the extensive radiation and chemotherapy, what followed has left my voice impaired.

“I was recently diagnosed with throat cancer. So, in the doc’s narrations, his son Jack speaks for him. Today, talking for Kilmer is strenuous as he continues his “grueling” recovery. Although he denied being sick in 2016, the actor now lives with a stoma - a hole in his throat used to breathe and speak. In the intimate and revealing new documentary “Val” - now streaming on Amazon Prime - we meet Kilmer, 61, after he’s survived throat cancer. Val Kilmer fans know the actor as the cocky Iceman in “Top Gun” and as the Caped Crusader in “Batman Forever.” He’s a masculine, charismatic spitfire with a reputation for being difficult on set.īut they’ll be shocked to see the former heartthrob and action star today. Val Kilmer wants to be Batman again after ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ comeback

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