Iceman and Maverick sit across from each other. He might have been the most talented actor of their generation but (oddly like Maverick) was a difficult character and saw his once-stratospheric career stall before he was tragically stricken with a virulent form of throat cancer that led to a tracheostomy. This plot development will not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Val, the extraordinary 2021 documentary about Kilmer. His wife tells Maverick he finds it all but impossible to speak.
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Maverick is so impossible to discipline that he has only been able to remain in the Navy because of the protection of his old sparring partner-who, we learn from a series of offhanded text messages that suggest an entirely easy intimacy, has in the passage of time become his dearest friend. Maverick has remained an imprudent bureaucratic player who has never risen above the rank of Captain.
In the decades since, Top Gun: Maverick tells us, Iceman has risen through the ranks of the Navy to become commander of the Pacific fleet. Kilmer's Iceman was easily the most interesting character from the original-a brilliant and arrogant pilot properly suspicious of and yet attracted to the extreme recklessness of Cruise's Maverick. There's a scene in the middle of Top Gun: Maverick in which Tom Cruise sits down with Val Kilmer, his adversary from the first Top Gun, released 36 years ago.
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