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...potential franchise role in Paramount's revival of The Saint. This isn't the clarety Simon Templar that George Sanders played in three Saint films in the '40s or the capering Roger Moore of the '60s TV show. Kilmer's Simon is a man unsure of his own identity and compelled to wear disguises as if he were shopping for a new soul. Similarly, Noyce eschews the campy look of Bond or Batman. The movie, about a post-Soviet plutocrat (Rade Serbedzija) who tries to mastermind a new Russian revolution, is dark--almost drab--and broody. It seems deeply riven...
...playing author Leslie Charteris' mysterious superhero, Kilmer got $8 million, a share of gross profits and the possibility of not only starring in but also helping produce a sequel. "I've tripled my price tag in the past two years," he says, "by being very fortunate in getting Batman, and then by just putting my head down and working a lot. I've moved into a league of the more proven...
When it comes to on-the-set notoriety, Kilmer is in a league of his own. He has been accused of sabotaging productions by making up his own dialogue and deliberately burning a cameraman's face with a lighted cigarette while shooting Moreau (Kilmer says it was an accident). Some directors praise the actor's craft and attitude. "Val gives you nuance piled on nuance," says Heat director Michael Mann. "I had a spectacular time working with him." But others hear the word Kilmer and reach for their revolver. "He isn't just a high-strung, difficult actor," says Joel...
Schumacher says Kilmer "can be one of the most charming, seductive people." But he claims that on the set, the actor often exhibited "tear-the-wings-off-a-fly behavior." One day, after shouting at an assistant director, Kilmer stormed into his trailer. Schumacher followed him inside and said he wouldn't tolerate such antics. "He wasn't used to being spoken to that way," Schumacher says, "so he shoved me against the trailer wall. I shoved him back and he ordered me out of his trailer. I said, 'You're a guest in this trailer. We're paying...
...Kilmer says the initial problem was Schumacher's refusal to let the actor watch his own dailies--the raw footage of his work. "I said, 'I don't know how to improve my performance if I can't see what I'm doing.' But for Joel, my work wasn't about acting. It was a modeling experience; he wanted to ritually sell an image. Once I realized that this movie was going to be a two-hour ad for the toys, that nothing I did mattered, I wasn't a pain in the ass." He says it was his choice...