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Val Kilmer interview with Elle

ELLE:

Having played Iceman in Top Gun, please rank its homoerotic content from 1 to 10, 1 being not gay at all, and 10 being Liberace in an F-16.

VAL KILMER:

11.

ELLE:

What do you think the lifetime ratio of you dumping versus being dumped has been?

VK:

It's just about 100 to 1. But women are so clever; maybe I got dumped and didn't know it.

ELLE:

Having broken up with so many, have you figured out the perfect way to do it?

VK:

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

ELLE:

What's your speed record for telling a woman you love her?

VK:

Before a first date. I sent her a poem.

ELLE:

So did the gambit kill the date?

VK:

No, we were together for two years.

ELLE:

Is there any man that you've ever been around whose power over women dwarfed your own?

VK:

Dwarfed? That's a pretty tough word. I can't remember the last time I was dwarfed.

ELLE:

Okay, then somewhat diminished your power, like if Batman had to compare his superpowers with Superman's.

VK:

Well, having been Batman, I know what you're talking about. Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down—fall down!—when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.

ELLE:

What famous woman would you most want on speed dial?

VK:

I just love Cate Blanchett, and I've lost her number. I met her when I did a little part in The Missing.

ELLE:

Did you make your feelings for her known?

VK:

I think she probably got a sense of it when I not only forgot my dialogue in the scene, I forgot that I was acting, I forgot I was on a movie set, and I just stood there staring at her.

Posted on February 3, 2012

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