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suffered more than his fair share of awkward celebrity run-ins over the years. , his daughter Mercedes has confirmed today (April 2) .But this wasn't his only health hiccup after suffering from a long-running fight with throat cancer, after being diagnosed in 2014.
However, over the years, the successful actor had rubbed a fair few people up the wrong way, including fellow actors and executives. He actually became notorious for doing so and even lost a few jobs because of his attitude during his career. He once commented: “ As you know, I have a reputation for being difficult, but only with stupid people.
" Before working together on Batman Forever, director Joel Schumacher was ‘warned not to hire him', but decided to anyway. But he soon regretted this after what turned in to "a physical pushing match". Schumacher deemed Kilmer as "childish, psychotic, and impossible".
Actor Neil Young, who played Boar Man in the 1996 horror sci-fi film, also slammed the star and said: “He was just kinda being a bit rude and abrasive. That was his character though, so it might be that is the way he prepared; to be an a*****, and to act like one on camera.” However, not all his celebrity run-ins went down in aggression, as some just came off a little awkward, including him allegedly catching rapper Eminem naked.
Recalling the memory on social media, the Slim Shady star talked about the blunder which took place at an MTV awards show around 2009 or 2010. He wrote: “I have something on my mind that’s been bothering me for years and I will tell you a little story. "I was at the VMAs — it was either Music Awards, Movie Awards, something.
My trailer was next door to 50 [Cent]’s trailer and I went to the back to go change for stage, and as I’m taking off my underwear, I look across at 50’s trailer, right even with me, is Val Kilmer.” “I know he’s looking at me, and I know he looked away because he saw me looking at him. “I know Val Kilmer saw me naked.
I just had to get that off my chest.” Following his red-faced confession, Kilmer later shared his side of the story and said: “I was nxt to Eminem’s trailer as a guest of 50, but sadly they only thing I saw was 50 closing Shady’s door after they had a visit! There’s a joke in there somewhere.” Another big name in Hollywood also was left feeling a tad humiliated after his mate tricked him into knocking on Kilmer's hotel door in the early hours.
Paul Rudd confessed about the encounter on an episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2004 and explained how the actor actually took it like a champ, after he pretended to be security complaining about noise. The Anchorman star explained: "I was staying in this hotel, and a friend of mine was staying in hotel as well, and it was about two in the morning. "I was just kind of watching TV.
I couldn't really sleep, and I looked over and the message light on my phone was flashing, but I thought that's weird. It wasn't flashing five minutes ago, someone's just left me a message. Maybe it's my friend.
"And I checked in and it was, it was a buddy of mine saying, 'Hey, man, look, I didn't want to wake you up, but if you're if you're awake, come on up to room 55 there's a party. There's a bunch of our friends that are here. It's really fun'.
" He continued: "So I got up and I got dressed, and I went up there, and this music's playing really loud, and I'm just banging on the door, saying, 'Open up. Open up. Security, open up.
' "And the music went down and I heard on the other side, 'We'll turn it down'. I said, 'Open the door. We've had many complaints'.
"Finally, after about three minutes, the door opens, and it was Val Kilmer." He laughed: "I don't know Val. And I was like, 'Oh, hey, yeah, my friend Sam said that he was up here'.
So he said 'Come on in. Maybe he's out on the deck'. "I walked out and there was no one out there.
I was gonna walk back out but I was so awkward that I should have obviously just said 'I'm sorry' and left, but it's just me and Val Kilmer, so I was like, so 'How's it going man?'".
