The “SNL” episode in question would have featured an iconic cameo from Tom Cruise that the audience wasn’t expecting.

Tom Cruise paid tribute to his late "Top Gun" co-star Val Kilmer on Thursday.

When Val Kilmer hosted Saturday Night Live in December 2000, a Top Gun sketch almost featured a cameo from co-star Tom Cruise ...

Continued Cruise: "I wish you well on the next journey." Kilmer starred as naval aviator Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in 1986's Top Gun, which propelled him into stardom. Funny enough, the pop culture ...

Cruise and Kilmer met on the set of 1986’s “Top Gun,” in which they played rival fighter pilots Maverick and Iceman, who eventually became friends at the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School.

PHOTO: Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise are shown in a scene from the 1986 movie 'Top Gun.' (Paramount Pictures via Newscom) After the moment of silence, Cruise, speaking to his late co-star, said, "I ...

Tom Cruise emotionally paid tribute to his “Top Gun” co-star Val Kilmer after the latter died from pneumonia earlier this week. “I’d like to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer,” the ...

Actress Michelle Williams and her husband, director Thomas Kail, quietly welcomed their third baby together via surrogate. Williams also shares daughter Matilda, 19, with the late Heath Ledger.

Tom Cruise paid tribute to his late Top Gun costar Val Kilmer with an emotional moment of silence at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. At the beginning of his Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning ...

Miles Teller starred as Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in the Top Gun sequel and initially teased all “the feels” when seeing ...

Tom Cruise is paying tribute to his friend and “Top Gun” costar Val Kilmer, who died earlier this week at age 65. Cruise made ...

I’ll say one of the things that jumps out is FaceTiming my dad and Tom Cruise taking the phone and talking to my dad on FaceTime while we were shooting Top Gun, that was pretty crazy.