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Josh Brolin has led tributes to his "brave" and "uber-creative" friend, Val Kilmer. The screen legend, perhaps best known for his performances in Top Gun and Batman Forever, died at the age of 65 on Tuesday. His daughter confirmed that pneumonia was the cause of death. Following the sad news, Brolin took to Instagram to post a photo of himself and Kilmer smiling while on a hike in a forest. ”See ya, pal. I'm going to miss you. You were a smart, challenging, brave, uber-creative firecracker. There's not a lot left of those. I hope to see you up there in the heavens when I eventually get there. Until then, amazing memories, lovely thoughts.” Meanwhile, Josh Gad uploaded a photo of Kilmer in costume as Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky in the 1986 action feature, Top Gun. ”RIP Val Kilmer. Thank you for defining so many of the movies of my childhood. You truly were an icon," the actor praised. And in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker Michael Mann recalled collaborating with Kilmer on his 1995 movie, Heat. ”While working with Val on Heat I always marvelled at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val's possessing and expressing character. After so many years of Val battling disease and maintaining his spirit, this is tremendously sad news,” Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and underwent chemotherapy and two tracheotomies.
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