our next guest starred in such films as Top Gun hey there was a movie yeah yep
also uh the doors and his brand new film which is titled Thunderheart opens uh
opened on Friday ladies and gentlemen here's Val Kilmer Val ve [Music]
thank you very much Val nice to see you there's a lot of excitement going on here did you see
that Hawk thing I sure did kind of got out of control yeah you but you must know something
of birds like that because I understand you have a home or spend a lot of your time in
in the deserts yes that's one of the reasons I moved to I live in New Mexico New Mexico
what part of New Mexico uh Santa Fe uh it's beautiful area a little north of Santa yeah
yeah it's just like the first time you get into that area it's just nothing but Horizon
it's big yeah it's a big country and what what do you do there raise the Buffalo raise the children
we have two Buffalo there and spend a lot of time with them his name's the the bull's name is James
Brown right because he is the Godfather [Laughter] and His companion is who Jezebel Jezebel now what
what was it about why did you want to get Buffalo as opposed to like horses or or cattle or I've
always loved them they're big yeah and they Frolic yeah too which a lot of people don't
know they Frolic are are they um can you can you describe some of that frolicking that was is it
very like a deer frolics except that they weigh 2 000 pounds I have a photograph of of the Buffalo
this is James my God now where do you even go to purchase a buffalo or do you have to go out and
catch your own that one man how old an animal do we have here about three and a half and then do
you know how old they get they they I think live 30 40 years wow and and you say they are good
good pets yeah you don't let them in the house though right you let them do whatever they want
and what is this that's uh that's his tire that's his toy there
from from horn to Horn and if we don't clap he gets angry really he can actually toss
the tire back and forth on his horn and he can actually get very angry
too yeah and how did he get the tire just uh pulled it off a speeding bus
clean and those are those are beautiful beautiful animals but now do you have to
go to the to the government to get them or I mean I know no and they're not so much
extinct anymore I'm like oh [Laughter] was that the last one of the reasons I moved to
the desert but I see you're bringing back the wildlife to New York City
but I uh what yeah I know in the green room all right sir the guy thinks this is Christmas
at the family house um I'll tell you what we'll do a station identification and then we'll come
back here with uh Val kilimer we'll be right back to the program Val Kilmer of course is
here and uh Lyle Lovett will be joining us uh in a few minutes to to sing a song yeah we'll
look forward to seeing Lyle Lovett and hearing him sing the song we had a hawk on the program
earlier the hawk has flown off and now we get another update in the owners of the hawk are not
worried because they believe the hawk will go out eat a pigeon and return and they're
completely relaxed about it that's good when you're in New York well I've done that you know
if you have a taste of pigeon this is the place to be it tastes 450. uh tomorrow on the program
Tony Curtis will be here uh Eddie Money and Rosie Perez oh that's that'll be another good show uh
let's see uh let's talk about the playing the part of Jim Morrison in that film what was it was that
an extraordinary experience or just another movie role for you yeah he was an extraordinary guy very
you know it was fun to jump on people and get paid for it which which he did and also he could either
get into a very serious discussion about God or vomit on you being able to you know so what you're
saying is he was very well-rounded a complete person musicians as you know are strange now it
is is this a guy that you uh before you got the part you liked his music you admired him when you
were younger or not not particularly no but I did I did getting into the music was a lot of fun and
I wasn't familiar with a lot of it that wasn't on the radio so uh that's what I did in preparation
mainly just learn all of the songs yeah and in addition to uh acting like Jim Morrison you were
singing like Jim Morrison and was it physically difficult yeah the Leathers uh probably what
killed him very it's hard to breathe in those pants but doing the concerts that was a pleasure
singing live and and uh often we they had hired uh new dancers for example new dancers nude Oh I
thought you were like beginners with no clothing oh okay to to exemplify the the joy of the 60s
and so the first assistant director would get the blow horn out there and say okay take it off and
everyone would wow including people that weren't being paid for it like the crew and it was a it
was a free-frow yeah well when you hear that as an announcement sometimes you can't help yourself
uh and you had to you had to wear uh uh something with your eyes you had contacts yes to simulate
being stoned but a lot a lot of people that came up to me helped me you know imagine what that was
like even even now they come up and say Jim was he did something one night that was so important
what were you talking about get that alive yeah uh and and after you finish with the film and saw
the completed version uh did you have a different impression of the guy or uh did you did you get to
like this character well toward I was mainly inside of it you know and Oliver Stone likes
to get in the mood of whatever the scene is so he started as he started degenerating and that
that's kind of what it was about I told him not to clean my clothing for example so the other actors
would get that sort of unwashed feeling of my God hardcore rock and roll yeah um and what about the
new film Thunderheart yes that's uh story about Native Americans contemporary story I play an FBI
agent uh I myself part Cherokee but this character was part Sue and goes to the Lakota Nation to
help solve a murder mystery and ends up befriending them no good Indians are quite
they actually they have great sense of humor and Robert De Niro was our producer he went out
there with the writer and they liked him a lot because he already had an Indian name he said
when's Raging Bull coming back they like they liked uh raging Bob please call them by his first
name Raging Raging it's raging yeah I like that yeah that's great uh and and the film uh you're
pleased with how this one turned out very much yeah Indians are primarily misrepresented in
films 20 000 westerns and maybe six or eight of them give them any Humanities so I'm proud
to have been in one well good for you and it's doing good business big hit all right it's uh
it opened on uh Friday Thunderheart yeah and it's uh all the Hawks in it oh is that right right go
down and help out uh Val good to meet you thank you very much for being here we'll be right back