Tom Cruise remembers ‘very special' late Val Kilmer reunion

Tom Cruise just remembered reuniting with Val Kilmer for Top Gun: Maverick.

The 62-year-old actor reprised his famous role of Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for the 2022 sequel and found it “beautiful” that his co-star of the 1986 film, reprised his role as his rival-turned-ally Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.

Kilmer, passed away last month due to complications from pneumonia but Cruise recalled their meeting as a “joyous" experience for them both.

The Mission Impossible star told Sight and Sound magazine, "To come back all those years later, and it was amazing being on set for Top Gun: Maverick because it was like time had not passed. We were laughing and it was joyous.”

"And then we started acting and it’s just, you see it… he became Iceman. The power that this guy has, even not saying anything, to become that character. You see how even the sniff that he gave. He was Iceman,” he added.

Tom continued, "And you saw the dynamic between these friends. It was very special, to say the least, for me personally.

"I just tell people… you take Iceman from the first film and you look at it here, that whole journey, he became Iceman. And he didn’t even have to speak,” he further noted.

"That’s what he’s able to do. Beautiful, really beautiful. A gift that he had and that he shared with all of us,” Tom Cruise concluded.