The 1986 film ‘Top Gun’ starred Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise.

Maverick and Iceman are reunited.

Val Kilmer recently opened up about working with Tom Cruise on “Top Gun: Maverick,” some 30 years after the first “Top Gun” was released.

Kilmer told Entertainment Weekly on Thursday, “It was like no time had passed at all.” He said, “We blew a number of takes laughing so much.” “It was a lot of fun… unique.”

In the sequel, Kilmer, 62, resumed his character of Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. The actor revealed that all of the celebrities have had a close relationship since they were children.

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“Even though we were all so young when we made the first movie, there was a special relationship between us all,” Kilmer added. “Even after the shoot, we’d laugh and dance all night!”

Kilmer told the newspaper how he learned about his role in “Top Gun: Maverick” and how he felt about it.

“Tom had dialed my number. I immediately said yes “he said

In the new movie, Cruise’s role, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is requested to return to the Top Gun programme to train a fresh crop of pilots. Joseph Kosinski, the film’s director, told the publication that he had to find out a method to include Kilmer’s character in the film.

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He said, “You had to figure out a method to get Iceman in.” “We had a meeting with Val. He had a brilliant concept for integrating Iceman in a genuine way.”

As Maverick battles an illness that takes his voice in the film, Kilmer’s Iceman supports Maverick’s unique teaching skills. This scene is based on Kilmer’s personal life.

The actor revealed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with throat cancer and has had difficulty speaking since then. Kilmer, like Iceman, communicates mostly through writing. Kilmer’s return to “Top Gun: Maverick” was crucial, as both Kosinski and Cruise realized. The reunion scene between Iceman and Maverick was the first time the two performers had worked together in nearly three decades.

“Obviously, [we] spent a lot of time on that moment, writing it, and preparing ready,” said Kosinski. “I wasn’t sure how things would turn out…. It’s a breathtaking scene. We shot it in a stunning mansion overlooking a park in Los Angeles. It’s fantastic to see Maverick and Iceman, as well as Val and Tom, back on television together.”

With “Top Gun: Maverick,” Cruise had the largest opening weekend of his career, with a projected $151 million over Memorial Day weekend.

The Paramount film, which was postponed several times due to the coronavirus outbreak, now has the second-best Memorial Day opening of all time, trailing only Johnny Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which grossed $153 million in 2007.