A follow-up to the 1986Top Gun, it stars Tom Cruise reprising his role as Pete Maverick Mitchell.
Theres a good reason that Kilmers appearance inMaverickhas been met with such joy.
The treatments damaged his vocal cords and permanently altered his speaking voice.
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Artificial intelligence made it possible for Kilmer to speak with his voice pre-illnessby way of machine learning.
We called Val and told him we wanted to meet him to be in the picture.
And he was thrilled, Bruckheimer recalled at the film’s San Diego premiere.
Tom [Cruise] said he wasn’t going to make the movie without him.
Because you want to see those two on the screen again, Iceman and Maverick going at it.
And that’s what movie making and audiences love.
Kilmers son Jack shared how much Icemans appearance meant to his dad.
They honor the legacy of Iceman, and he was so stoked by it, he said.
It was one of the proudest moments of being American that you could think of really.
Top Gun: Maverickis now in theaters.
The filmTop Gun: Maverickhas been a critical and box-office success.
The treatments damaged his vocal cords.
AI was able to model Kilmer’s past way of speaking and it was used in the film.
