“I am growing jackfruit and coconut,” he said.

“Not playing Jim was not an option,” KilmerHe’d already been making his own audition tapes for filmmakers he wanted to work with, like Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese, and did the same for Oliver Stone and the producers, singing The Doors’ songs himself. This time it worked and he “lived” Jim Morrison for a year, down to his movements and leather pants.

Though the film itself received mixed reviews, Kilmer’s committed performance as the self-destructive rocker who epitomized the psychedelic excesses of the 1960s was widely praised. Owen Gleiberman wrote in his Entertainment Weekly review at the time that Kilmer “captures, to an astonishing degree, the hooded, pantherish charisma that made Morrison the most erotically charged pop performer since the early days of Elvis.”Available to rent on video on demandUnlike Iceman, Doc Holliday was a character Kilmer found to be very well written in the 1993 Western “Tombstone.” Holliday is dying of tuberculosis in George P. Cosmatos’ film when he meets up with his old friend Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) in a classic showdown of outlaws and lawmen (even those attempting to retire).

Kilmer said he always saw the movie as a love story between two men. For his death scene, he asked the art department to fill his bed with ice to ensure he was feeling equal discomfort with his character as he tells Earp to go live his life.Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.

Uncharacteristically, Kilmer accepted the role of Bruce Wayne without reading the script. It was BATMAN, and he, like most American men, had loved the character since he was a boy. But the experience was a different kind of challenge, as he attempted to get a performance through the restrictions of the costume.

“Whatever boyish excitement I had going in was crushed by the reality of the batsuit,” he said in “Val.” “It was frustrating until I realized that my role in the film was just to shut up and stand where I was told.”MUMBAI, India (AP) — Shubman Gill was named as India’s new test skipper on Saturday to lead the team on its five-test tour of England starting June 20.

The 25-year-old batter takes over from Rohit Sharma, who announced hisdoing the same. Sharma last led India against Australia during the Boxing Day test.

“We discussed every option that’s there, over the last year or so, and we have looked at Shubman various times,” selection committee chairman Ajit Agarkar said. “We have taken a lot of feedback from the dressing room. We are hopeful he is the guy — he is a terrific player and our best wishes to him.”Gill will lead India for the first time in tests, having had only T20 captaincy experience prior.