{"id":710471,"date":"2026-06-02T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:54:12","slug":"val-kilmer-conspiracy-director-rips-actor-worst-human-being-ive-ever-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710471\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer ‘Conspiracy’ Director Rips Actor ‘Worst Human Being I’ve Ever Known’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Conspiracy’ Director On Val Kilmer
\n He Was the ‘Worst Human Being’<\/p>\n

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\n June 2, 2026
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\n June 2, 2026
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A director who worked with Val Kilmer<\/a> says it’s no conspiracy … Val was the absolute worst person he’s ever known.<\/p>\n

“Conspiracy” director Adam Marcus unloaded on Val in a series of since-deleted social media posts, according to Entertainment Weekly, calling him a “putz” and saying he had no problem speaking ill of the dead.<\/p>\n

Adam said of Val … “Worst human being I\u2019ve ever known\u2026 and that is really saying something.”<\/p>\n

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The director clearly expected some backlash over his comments, saying … “And to any of you rolling your eyes because of the whole \u2018don\u2019t speak ill of the dead bulls***,\u2019 f*** that. [If] this guy did one-tenth of what he did on my set today, he would have been cancelled in a blink.”<\/p>\n

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Val starred as William “Spooky” MacPherson, a disabled Iraq War veteran who travels to Arizona to discover that his friend and his family have vanished, in the 2008 action thriller “Conspiracy.”<\/p>\n

Adam’s comments come a little over a year since Val’s death … as you know, in April 2025 he died<\/a> of pneumonia.<\/p>\n

Despite Val having tons of fans, he didn’t exactly have a clean-cut reputation on set … according to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Joel Schumacher directed Val in 1995’s “Batman Forever” and labeled him “childish and impossible” and a “psychologically disturbed human being.”<\/p>\n

Val addressed the criticism while speaking to Rolling Stone<\/a> in 2003 and admitted he’d been “careless about how I viewed my business.” However, he pushed back … “But I trust that the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie.”<\/p>\n

In a 2021 documentary about his life, Val said he “behaved poorly” and even “bizarrely to some,\u201d but said he had no regrets.<\/p>\n

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