{"id":28030,"date":"2021-08-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28030"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T23:20:25","slug":"val-kilmer-little-known-surprising-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28030","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer – Little Known & Surprising Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jake Rossen, at Mental Floss, has come up with 10 Surprising Facts About Val Kilmer<\/a>.  Rossen’s list is a good one, with some truly surprising trivia.  Before you click over, here are three of my favorites with my thoughts…<\/p>\n

VAL KILMER WAS THE YOUNGEST PERSON TO EVER BE ACCEPTED INTO THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL\u2019S DRAMA DIVISION. <\/strong> (That is a testament to Kilmer’s talent that isn’t subjective. – Craig)<\/p>\n

VAL KILMER TURNED DOWN THE OUTSIDERS<\/em> TO DO BROADWAY.<\/strong> (I’m sure that was a tough decision — work with a group of up and coming young stars directed by Francis Ford Coppola or appear on Broadway with Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.  I’m a bit surprised that he didn’t go with Coppola and the movie. – Craig)<\/p>\n

VAL KILMER DIDN\u2019T WANT TO MAKE TOP GUN<\/em>.<\/strong> (Kilmer felt Top Gun<\/em> had a pro-war message and almost didn’t accept the role that is arguably his second most famous! – Craig)<\/p>\n

I still believe that Val Kilmer not getting nominated, let alone win an Oscar for his role as Doc Holiday in Tombstone<\/em> is one of the biggest oversights in Academy Award history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jake Rossen, at Mental Floss, has come up with 10 Surprising Facts About Val Kilmer.  Rossen’s list is a good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28032,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}