Actor Val Kilmer, renowned for Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He gained a reputation as “temperamental, intense, a perfectionist and sometimes egotistical.” Numerous spats with directors and co-stars, plus a series of flops, dented his later career.
Batman director Joel Schumacher called Kilmer “the most psychologically troubled human being I’ve ever worked with”.
And after the notoriously troubled production of 1996 The Island of Dr Moreau, which flopped, in which Kilmer clashed with Marlon Brando, the director John Frankenheimer said afterwards: “There are two things I would never do again in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn’t enough money in the world.”
Kilmer was also nominated multiple times for worst actor in the annual Razzie awards.
Born 31 December 1959 7.58am Los Angeles, he did have a difficult chart with a Sun conjunct Saturn in Capricorn in his 12th trine Pluto in his 8th, sextile Neptune conjunct his Midheaven from his 9th. Acting would be a saving grace for him, giving him an outlet for his inner disquiet and depression. He also luckily had an upbeat and highly adventurous Mars Jupiter Mercury in Sagittarius in his 11th trine Uranus in his 7th – not always sensible but a risk-taker.
His 1st house loves-to-shock Aquarius Moon was square Neptune and inconjunct Pluto. A charming and seductive Venus in Scorpio in his 10th square Uranus would help his career but make, along with his difficult Moon aspects and Uranus in his 7th, committed relationships hard to sustain.
“Sun conjunct Saturn in Capricorn in his 12th trine Pluto in his 8th”
Oof, I bet his father was interesting, to say the least, especially behind closed doors. I read his younger brother passed as a teen in a jacuzzi.
I remember him in Top Gun Maverick. It was such a poignant, memorable appearance. Val gave that film so much weight.
Rest in Power Val.
It is so sad that someone who was such a beautiful Voice of God in The Prince of Egypt died because of consequences of throat cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3829oXRaIAY
Always loved him, and first got to know him through Batman.
Although he dated some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, including Cher and Angelina Jolie, could you do a synastry of him and Cindy Crawford, because that is also how I remember him? Thank you.
I forgot to add that in this scene Val is basically talking to himself – he is also the voice of Moses, something which was fascinating to many people down the years. He had a great voice.