Jack and Mercedes Kilmer (inset: Val Kilmer).Photo: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images; Inset: EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images
Val Kilmer’s kids are giving an update on their dad’s health.
While the 61-year-old actor didn’t attend the Los Angelespremiere of his new documentaryValon Tuesday night, his daughterMercedestoldEntertainment Tonightat the event that her father is “doing really well.”
“He’s seen it probably a thousand times, so we can’t control what he does,” she added of the documentary.
Said Mercedes' brotherJack, “It’s very emotional for him to watch it and we wish he could be here, but he’s here in spirit and he’s just so proud of this and that people get to see a side of him that has never been seen before.”
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Jack and Mercedes Kilmer.Mike Marsland/WireImage
In thefirst trailer for the film, released in early July, Kilmer shares an intimate look at his life through home movies, which also feature glimpses of a youngKevin BaconandSean Penn.
At one point in the trailer, theTop Gunstar uses his voice box to communicate how he has “tried to see the world as one piece of life.” In another scene, he says, “I’m still recovering and it is difficult to talk and to be understood. But I want to tell my story more than ever.”
Kilmer alsoshared the trailer on Twitterat the time, writing, “It feels like yesterday and yet it has been a lifetime.”
“As I write this, my documentary is getting ready to premiere atFestival De Cannes. And as grateful as I am for being selected with this high honor, I look forward most tosharing my life’s story with all of you,” he wrote.
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Mercedes, 29, toldETthat it was “really incredible to see the audience recognizing the truth of who” her dad “is kind of for the first time.”
“I think we are still — at least I am still trying to — figure it out tosee his life narrated in such a wayand I am only just really processing how great of a legacy his body of work has,” she said.
Jack, 26, described their father as “such a creative” and “eccentric person,” with “a lot of energy and such a lust for life.”
Valis available to stream on Amazon Prime Video Friday.
source: people.com
