Val Kilmer is joking around in his trailer on the set of Top Gun, pretending to bark demands into a packet of More cigarettes as if it's a phone and he's talking to the studio boss.

"He wants more! More sex! More drugs! More wine! More tobacco! More headaches! More ulcers! More herpes! More women! And less of Tom Cruise!"

Co-stars Rick Rossovich and Barry Tubb, also on a break from playing the film's elite fighter pilots, are in the trailer too, cracking up with laughter.

Rossovich, aka Kilmer's on-screen partner Slider, is apparently the person who wants "more". Wearing shades but no shirt, he proceeds to pretend to throw a chair at Kilmer's head, before jumping out of the trailer into the sunshine and dancing off.

Kilmer took his video camera everywhere to film behind the scenes, and picked these snapshots of the carefree tomfoolery on the Top Gun set in 1985 as the opening shots for a 2021 documentary about his life.

"He had the first video camera I'd ever seen," recalls Tubb, who played Wolfman. "They got so tired of telling him to turn it off on the set of Top Gun that they finally just let it go.

"We had a fun time with it because we tried to catch everyone on the toilet with the video camera. That was our goofing around. So there's video somewhere of everyone with the door open on the toilet. We were goofballs."

He adds: "Cruise never hung out with us. It was all of us, except for Cruise. He was method acting as the loner, and we were all at this beach hotel, riding motorcycles down hallways and things."

And Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, "unlike some producers, threw parties every other night", he says. "And so it was definitely in the air."

Tubb is one of many former co-stars who have been fondly remembering Kilmer's acting and his antics, following his death at the age of 65.

"He was the coolest cat I've ever met," Tubb tells BBC News. "Not only did he have........

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