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That same year, Paramount Pictures released an early trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick,” with a slight wardrobe change for Tom Cruise’s famed fighter pilot.

Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots.

Iceman the fighter pilot left viewers swooning, but the part also underscored his power to carry a movie, even when he wasn’t billed as its lead.

He had most recently reprised his role as fighter pilot Iceman alongside Tom Cruise in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

Matt, dating a pediatric oncologist, goes to a fundraiser where he defends the movies against outsiders who declare, “It’s all superheroes and fighter pilots” and ask, “Have you seen ‘The Bear’?”;