
I’ve heard enough stories about Val Kilmer being nuts that I believe them, and true to form, Kilmer joined the Black Lips onstage at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin over the weekend, taking a chainsaw to an amplifier, screaming non-sequitirs, making out with the band, walking in a walker, and eventually chopping off clumps of his own hair with a knife. You know, actor stuff. Supposedly the performance was being filmed for a Terrence Malick movie, a movie I like to think is entitled “An Average Day in the Life of Val Kilmer.”
On Friday, Kilmer hopped onto the Fun Fun Fun Fest stage with the Black Lips and Terrence Malick’s film crew, the latter of which, reports Rolling Stone, was there to capture the actor’s performance for an untitled film also starring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Natalie Portman. Or was it all just a warm-up? In between chain-sawing through stage equipment and giving himself a surprise haircut, Kilmer told the Austin crowd, “Did they tell you we’re making a movie? We’re not. We’re practicing making a movie.” Regardless of whether the performance was being filmed as a rehearsal or an actual scene, the footage may never see the light of day; Malick recently surprised both critics and his To the Wonder cast when he deleted Rachel Weisz, Michael Sheen, Amanda Peet, and Berry Pepper entirely from his romantic drama.
During the performance, Kilmer further provoked the audience by asking them if they’d like to hear him perform as Jim Morrison, whom he portrayed in the 1991 biopic The Doors. “Do you wanna hear some Doors songs? Well, you’re 20 years too late. No Doors here. We have some windows . . . got some garage. But we’ve got no Doors.” [VanityFair]
Haha, that is a good one, Val Kilmer, we’re all just spitballin here.
I’ll admit, I was not at Fun Fun Fun Fest to gauge audience reaction, but I think Val Kilmer may have overestimated the desire of a bunch of 22-year-old Austin hipsters to hear an actor sing a song their parents were conceived to because he was in a movie about it 20 years ago. That said, I would’ve completely lost my sh*t if he’d sung “Skeet Surfin‘.”
God damn I love Top Secret.









You show me someone who doesn’t at least crack a smile at that cow wearing boots & I’ll show you someone who’s dead inside. DEAD!
This was Val’s reaction when he was told that this wasn’t the Fun Fun Fun Dip Fest, as he previously thought. I blame his behavior on Type 2 diabetes.
Vince, please call of my responsibilities today to explain that I’ll be watching Top Secret! and won’t be able to make it.
Sounds like Val Kilmer, looks like Meatloaf… witchcraft.
“I’m standing at the great abyss of love and.. and.. I’m TEET-erin’!”
Val needs to go full Shatner and not only sing Skeet Surfin’ but read from his lines in Real Genius.
The first time I watched Top Secret I almost died from oxygen deprivation laughing at Skeet Surfin’ and then proceeded to replay the beginning about 10 more times. No matter how great the rest of the movie was, I knew nothing would top the opening.
This sounds too much like James Franco… I smell Dicknose.
They just don’t make ‘em like Top Secret anymore.