Tombstone (1993) Cast Then and Now 2026 — The Loss That Hit Kurt Russell Hardest

In 1993, after wrapping Tombstone, Val Kilmer bought Kurt Russell an acre of land in Arizona overlooking Boot Hill, the old frontier cemetery. Russell never sold it. More than thirty years later, with Kilmer gone, that patch of dirt has become one of the last tangible links between them. The two had first met a decade earlier on the Silkwood set, when Kilmer was a serious, little-known Juilliard graduate barely into his twenties. This video follows their friendship from that first meeting through Tombstone and into a quiet final visit, where Kilmer — his voice nearly gone — joked that he might have been kinder to people, then laughed. Drawing on Russell's own remarks to Rolling Stone, it looks at what he chose to say about a complicated friend, and why he skipped the polished Hollywood tribute entirely.