Val Kilmer, who died of pneumonia at 65 on April 1, famously had a negative experience portraying Batman in 1995's Batman Forever. "It’s not about Batman. There is no Batman," he once said in an interview.

The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.

In what would be the final years of his life, Val Kilmer leaned more into a different type of art than acting, but he never forgot his fans.