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Kurt Russell Reveals He and Val Kilmer Exchanged These Dark Gifts After Filming 'Tombstone' in 2024 Interview
Kurt Russell revealed in a resurfaced interview that he and the late Val Kilmer exchanged rather dark gifts after filming 1993's 'Tombstone' together.
Kurt Russell Reveals He and Val Kilmer Exchanged These Dark Gifts After Filming Tombstone in 2024 Interview
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The actor played the role of Wyatt Earp alongside the late Kilmer's Doc Holliday in the iconic 1993 Western
The late Val Kilmer had a dark sense of humor when it came to gift giving.
In a January 2024 interview with GQ, Kurt Russell revealed that he and Kilmer, who died on April 1 at the age of 65, exchanged rather dark gifts after wrapping filming on their 1993 Western, Tombstone.
Speaking to GQ, Russell, 74, said that actors used to exchange gifts after wrapping filming, despite it not being a “mandatory gesture.”
“If you’re asking me if it was great working with Val Kilmer, who played Doc Holliday on Tombstone, the answer is absolutely,” Russell, who portrayed Wyatt Earp in the movie, said.
“In those days, especially when you were working with people, sometimes at the end of the show you’d get them gifts or trade gifts,” he continued. “It’s not mandatory, it’s not something that you gotta do or that they’ve gotta do.”
Russell revealed that he asked his driver if he could “get a hold” of Kilmer’s holster, gun, hat and chair “with his name on the back" from the movie.
“Take a picture, and then in that picture I wanted to have this thing,” the Hollywood icon explained.
Russell went on to share that he gifted Kilmer a burial plot in Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona, a cemetery where many famous figures of the Old West were laid to rest.
“I give Val this present and he looks at me and he turns to his driver and he says, ‘Give it to me.’ Because what I had gotten Val was a plot at Boothill, what Val had gotten me was an acre of land overlooking Boothill."
“Doc Holliday was all about death, but Wyatt’s all about life,” Russell said with a laugh. “I guess that pretty much says it all."
Kurt Russell Bought Val Kilmer a Burial Plot in Iconic Cemetery
The poignant, and at the time joking, gift was linked to their roles in “Tombstone.”
Kurt Russell Bought Val Kilmer a Burial Plot in Iconic Cemetery
Val Kilmer's family will have the option of burying him in an unlikely—but highly appropriate—place: Boot Hill Cemetery. Kilmer was gifted a plot in the most famous graveyard of the Wild West by Kurt Russell after the two finished their classic Western, Tombstone, Russell told GQ last year.R.I.P.
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Not to be forgotten is how he nailed the voice/ghost of Elvis in True Romance.
Epic movie and cast. Even in that bit part he was memorable
Epic movie and cast. Even in that bit part he was memorable
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