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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
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We’re having a great time, I wouldn’t want to spoil it.”
Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer) and Pete “Maverick” Michell (Tom Cruise)
The funeral scene of Iceman (Val Kilmer) is one of the most moving scenes in Top Gun: Maverick. For the sake of realism, director Joseph Kosinski’s teams decided to shoot the scene in the real Navy cemetery at Point Loma near the city of San Diego, where the action of the feature film also takes place. A way to anchor Top Gun 2 a little more in a logic that is not only realistic but also respectful of the institutions of the Navy.
From the beginning, Tom Cruise asked the producers to include Val Kilmer in the project. Diminished by a terrible disease that has deprived him of speech, so to speak, the interpreter of Iceman gladly accepts and shoots a particularly touching scene alongside Tom Cruise. Val Kilmer himself suggested the idea of including his illness in the script. Not being able to recite his dialogues, he is thus assisted by a software thanks to which his voice was restored to him faithfully. Moved to find himself, more than 30 years after the first Top Gun, in front of his former rival, Tom Cruise explained to the site jxxspzd: “I think people just have to see it; I don’t even want to try. Val Kilmer is such a fine actor, and you see what he brings to this movie; the power that he has. And I think that relationship and the structure of the story, where it works, I don’t want to talk about. I just want people
to experienceit.
This is the second time Joseph Kosinski directs Tom Cruise after Oblivion, released in 2013.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
A national cemetery located at Point Loma near San Diego, Fort Rosecrans is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Home to the graves of serviceman Michael A. Monsoors, aviation pioneer Reuben H. Fleet, and writers Alan Le May and Laurence Stallings, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery covers 77.5 hectares. It is made up of more than 101 graves, most of which are those of American soldiers. Listed as a California Historical Landmark, it overlooks the ocean and regularly sees warships parade offshore.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.