There are some tricky people to work with in Hollywood, but out of all of them, Val Kilmer takes the biscuit. The 55-year-old's career has gone extremely quiet over the last decade, but during his peak years he was an absolutely detestable person to work with on movies. The amount of people he has fallen out with are endless, and it's debatable whether there is one director he has worked alongside who actually enjoyed his company. Kilmer went two weeks without speaking to director Joel Schumacher on the set of Batman Forever, after the former was disciplined by the latter for verbally abusing a crew member. Schumacher did not speak fondly of the man who played the Caped Crusader:
"He was rude and inappropriate. He was childish and impossible. I was forced to tell him that this would not be tolerated for one more second. Then we had two weeks where he did not speak to me but it was bliss!"
On the set of The Saint he reportedly told everyone not to make eye contact with him, while his director on Tombstone, Kevin Jarre, once said of him, "There's a dark side to Val that I don't feel comfortable talking about." Kilmer also demanded everybody call him 'Jim' on the set of The Doors - The Doors' lead singer was Jim Morrison, for those of you unfamiliar with their music - and while filming The Island Of Dr Moreau, director John Frankenheimer proclaimed:
"There are two things I will never ever do in my whole life: I will never climb Mount Everest and I will never work with Val Kilmer again."
The list of Kilmer's unacceptable antics go on and on, but you get the gist of it. No living actor has fallen out with so many people and alienated himself from virtually the whole of Hollywood in the process. Maybe the dreadful Batman Forever tipped him over the edge. Agree with the article? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
