Val Kilmer would have assaulted actress in “The Doors”; Remember controversy

Val Kilmer killed on Tuesday (1st) at 65 because of pneumonia, had a career in Hollywood cinema full of controversies. Considered a difficult person by some colleagues, the actor has collected career disaffected. Remember some cases below.

Actress

Caitlin O’Heaney claims to have been assaulted By Val Kilmer during a test for “The Doors – The Movie” (1991). In an interview with BuzzFeed in 2017, the actress said the actor was angry with her, threw her to the floor and gave her a punch During a script reading.

O’Heaney made a police report against the actor at the time. In order not to harm the recordings, however, she eventually signed a confidentiality agreement, receiving an amount for silence and putting hot cloths in the episode.

“I was so traumatized that I signed the document against my will,” she said, stating that director Oliver Stone witnessed the scene and laughed all the time.

The cast director of “The Doors”, Risa Bramon Garcia, however, denied the Buzzfeed that O’Hheaney had been assaulted on the set. “I know the difference between an abuse and a moment that went too far, but everything was in the context of the work,” he said.

Psychotic as Batman

Val Kilmer was also accused by Joel Schumacher, director of “Batman forever,” of causing problems in the set. In an interview with Vulture magazine in 2019, the filmmaker, who died in 2020, defined his relationship with the actor: “I didn’t say Val was difficult in ‘Batman forever.’ I said he was psychotic.”

Widespread antipathy in “The Island of Dr. Moreau”

Val Kilmer was not well accepted by co -workers in “The Island of Dr. Moreau”. Marlon Brando, protagonist of the feature, would have missed a recording and conflicted with Kilmer. According to the Guardian, the star of “The Mighty Blim” would have told his colleague that he was “confusing the size of his talent with the your salary size “.

John Frankenheimer, director who took over the recordings during filming, publicly criticized him. “There are two things I will never do in my life. The first is to climb Everest. The second is to work with Val Kilmer again,” the filmmaker told Entertainment Weekly.

Health problem revealed by Michael Douglas

In 2016, Michael Douglas eventually revealed to the public that Val Kilmer was suffering from throat cancer – a disease he was also diagnosed.

“Val is a wonderful guy who is going through exactly what I went through, and things are not good for him. My prayers are with him. That’s why you don’t hear Val’s much talk about recently,” Douglas said at an event

Val Kilmer denied the information at that time. “I love Michael Douglas, but he’s uninformed,” he said, admitting treatment against the disease publicly only a year later.

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