The 'Top Gun' actor reveals he fell head over heels in love with his onscreen love interest in the Oliver Stone movie following her split from Billy Bob Thornton.
- April 22, 2020
AceShowbiz - Val Kilmer fell hard for Angelina Jolie on the set of "Alexander" and dreamed of having a future with the Oscar winner.
The "Top Gun" star reveals he and his co-star became close while making the 2004 Oliver Stone film and he thought he might have a chance of dating her after her split from Billy Bob Thornton.
"We developed a friendship," Kilmer recalls in his new memoir "I'm Your Huckleberry", according to Us Weekly. "I was around when Angie's mom (Marcheline Bertrand) was losing her battle with cancer. They were living in her mom's favorite hotel. Or maybe it was Angie's. I happened to be staying there myself. It was meaningful and mortal and effortless and exquisite."
The actor told Stone he thought the pair's film, in which he played King Philip II opposite Jolie's Queen Olympias, should feature flashbacks of the screen couple's torrid romance and the director agreed.
"I was only half kidding," he writes, admitting the filmmaker "didn't pick up on the humor."
"I couldn't wait to kiss Angie, buy her (a) Gulfstream jet and have V+J painted in rainbow glory on the tail. She had recently adopted her first child, Maddox, and the paparazzi were obsessed with this postmodern Madonna, the perfect picture of unapproachable stardom and impossibly chic maternal instinct."
The romance was not meant to be and a year later, Jolie fell in love with her "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star Brad Pitt.
