Val Kilmer: My Wild Time Shooting ‘Top Gun,’ From Drunken Run-ins With the Cops to Pranking Tom Cruise

Man, that was a pretty self-absorbed and narcissistic piece by Kilmer. His backhanded compliments of Cruise sound more like he was making fun. And this line was over the top in terms of a false sense of self-importance: “Another point of pride was flying in the jets. Though I was never really doing it, I learned the mechanics of operating the plane....”. Dude, you were a passenger