(April 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: To me, he'll always be Chris Knight, a genius from Real Genius. He definitely wasn't a genius in real life though. He ignored a huge tumor for many months because of religious conviction before finally accepting reality and having surgery. He's lucky it didn't metastasize to the rest of his body. Looks like it came back to bite him in the ass anyway.
From Wikipedia:
Kilmer was a lifelong Christian Scientist, and upon his throat cancer diagnosis referred to it in the press as "the suggestion of throat cancer,” opting not to explicitly associate himself with such a diagnosis. He underwent suggested chemotherapy despite it being conventionally against his religion.[72]