Val Kilmer left Will Forte with ‘biggest regret’ of his career

Val Kilmer has left his close friend Will Forte with a lifelong regret he’ll carry.

The two stars forged a strong friendship after working together in MacGruber, the 2010 adaptation of Forte’s Saturday Night Live character of the same name.

In the wake of the Top Gun star’s unexpected death earlier this week at the age of 65, Forte opened up about the "biggest regret" of his entire career: not being allowed to do The Amazing Race with Kilmer.

In a piece to Vulture, Forte recalled one day Kilmer saw him watching The Amazing Race— a show which Forte enjoyed— and jokingly criticised it, saying, "what are you watching that garbage for? Come on, that stuff’s going to rot your mind."

Forte didn’t react much instead, he invited Kilmer to watch the show with him before making any judgements.

"So he sat down and started watching it, and he got really into it," Forte reminsced.

Kilmer grew so much in love with the CBS series that he wanted to be a part of the 2001 show, which sends contestants to international destinations for hunting clues.

Forte recounted they contacted their agents to ask if they could participate in the show, but their respective managers denied them.

"That is, maybe to this day, the biggest regret of my whole career — that I never did The Amazing Race with Val," Forte wrote. "I think we would've gotten out very quickly, but it just would've been the experience of a lifetime."

Kilmer’s daughter Mercedes Kilmer confirmed to the New York Times that The Door and Batman Forever star died of pneumonia. Although he was previously diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, she revealed he had recovered.