What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood. This has to be one of my favorite interviews. You know him, you love him. I'm going one-on-one with Val Kilmer. This is an honor. We are at the Kurt Douglas Theater for your show Citizen Twain, writer, producer, director, the star. Anything more?

Driver. I'm driving myself. Props.

Well, you've been doing the show for a while now. How's the reception been?

You know, I've been very, very pleased. It's a comedy so you find out right away whether it's working or not, if no one laughs. And now I'm kind of at what I'm calling the preview stage. I'm still working on the play. Uh it's very hard to edit Mark Twain.

You embody him to a T and you're hysterical. The difference between praying in the casino and praying in church. In the casino they really mean it.

Well, he's an awfully funny guy, so I can't take that much credit but a couple of jokes that I wrote that get laughs. It's a very unique feeling. Well, my friend said, he I never noticed my friend looks exactly like Nicholas Cage. Twain's so much fun. Forget whatever your eighth grade English teacher told you. Uh he's really radical and in a great tradition like Chris Rock and and Louis C. K. are doing today. He he's really our first stand-up.

He is a stand-up comedian for sure.

Yeah. And he didn't subscribe to any rules. He just went on stage with his cigar and a glass of whiskey and brought the newspaper out and said, well, what's happening in Culver City today.

Are you a whiskey drinker yourself?

No, no. I sound like I did, but this is this comes from I just played a kind of lunatic general for uh Will Ferrell and and Adam McKay spoof miniseries for IFC called The Spoils of Babylon. I played a general.

Let me just say when I told friends and colleagues that I was interviewing Val Kilmer, everyone had a moment. Oh, Tombstone, Doors, Willow, Batman, recited a favorite line, their favorite movie that you've done. Does it feel the same way to you as it does to literally the rest of America?

I don't I don't think so. I can't say that I, you know, wake up, look in the mirror and and say you're dangerous or something like From Top Gun. That would be awesome. That would be cause for a great deal of worry.

I heard one role that is iconic for you. You actually didn't want in the beginning. Iceman?

Yeah. I just didn't relate to the story and uh Tony Scott knew that. I think I probably clearly communicated to him that I wasn't that interested. So I I went out the elevator and he literally ran out and and jumped in between me and the elevator. And he just like, I know you don't want to do this, man. But it's gonna be great. The jets were room and he back then, he couldn't complete sentence. It's gonna come in here and we're and he just made so many he was like, he was like a madman with with enthusiasm. And I just started laughing. I'm like, you know, dude, you're crazy. And he's like, I know, it's gonna be great, you know, and he wanted to infect me and did with with uh the sound effects really wasn't really any any one sentence that he said. But he was like that too. That's really how I decided about work, whether I was interested in I tried to do something new every every time. Yeah. And so that's one of the reasons I didn't follow through with lots of comedies. So usually if you get some comedies you sort of strengthen your position in that that sort of genre. I don't very few love stories though, which I don't understand cuz I love women.

You wanna make out on screen, don't you?

Well, the few times I have, I've enjoyed it. I've been very lucky. Once with Robert Downey Jr. Great head. That's a good one. The only men I've kissed are very handsome men. Will Ferrell, Will Forte. No. Did I kiss Will? No, I just thought about it. Colin Farrell. There's three. Who's the other guy? Who am I neglecting? Wow. The last love scene I can remember was was with Angelina Jolie. Or maybe it's the one I always think about first.

You are really good at Twitter.

And am I?

You've like perfected the selfie.

Some article someone just said that that there was praise about how well I take a picture of myself. No kidding. Yeah. I don't know what to say about that. Sounds kinda gross, doesn't it? I'm embarrassed right now. So I I do know how to frame it. But now it's the planet doing it, right?

Yes. And do we ever go back and look at them?

No, we never.

I looked at all of yours.

Did you?

Yes.

Why?

Well, because you're a thorough journalist.

Thank you.

Yes, that I Why is he smiling? Thorough enough, Mr. Kilmer, that I brought a prop with me.

Did you? My favorite scene is you Tom Hanks is in that movie. Wilson. No, Wilson he called. I know but if I say it then it we have to get permission, right? Let's go to the stage and then you're gonna teach me you can teach me how to do the spin of the volleyball. I thought you were like, we're number one. How do you do it? Spin it. How do you do it? Spin it. You think this is easy, right? There you go. Dude, that's awesome.

Hi, this is Val Kilmer and you're watching Young Hollywood.