John Wallace Kilmer (born June 6, 1995) is an American actor known for
starring in the 2013 film Palo Alto and for playing Pelle "Dead" Ohlin
in the 2018 Norwegian black metal biopic Lords of Chaos, and for
playing Ozzy Osbourne in Ozzy's "Under the Graveyard" video.Kilmer,
born to actors Joanne Whalley and Val Kilmer, was named after his
mother. Jack grew up in Los Angeles and attended primary school at The
Center for Early Education, where he met would-be filmmaker Gia
Coppola (he was in the first grade; she was in the sixth).They stayed
in touch and, twelve years later, Coppola asked him to review her
script for Palo Alto, a film adaptation of James Franco's book of the
same name which she also planned to direct. She asked him to advise
whether the dialog was an authentic reflection of "kids today". After
he ran through a table read with her, she encouraged him to audition
for one of the film's main roles, Teddy. Coppola filmed him as he read
through the lines and this became his audition tape; he eventually won
the role. After he was cast as Teddy, his father Val Kilmer joined the
cast as the father of another character. Before filming Palo Alto when
he was 16 years old, Kilmer had never acted before, and did not aspire
to be an actor.
starring in the 2013 film Palo Alto and for playing Pelle "Dead" Ohlin
in the 2018 Norwegian black metal biopic Lords of Chaos, and for
playing Ozzy Osbourne in Ozzy's "Under the Graveyard" video.Kilmer,
born to actors Joanne Whalley and Val Kilmer, was named after his
mother. Jack grew up in Los Angeles and attended primary school at The
Center for Early Education, where he met would-be filmmaker Gia
Coppola (he was in the first grade; she was in the sixth).They stayed
in touch and, twelve years later, Coppola asked him to review her
script for Palo Alto, a film adaptation of James Franco's book of the
same name which she also planned to direct. She asked him to advise
whether the dialog was an authentic reflection of "kids today". After
he ran through a table read with her, she encouraged him to audition
for one of the film's main roles, Teddy. Coppola filmed him as he read
through the lines and this became his audition tape; he eventually won
the role. After he was cast as Teddy, his father Val Kilmer joined the
cast as the father of another character. Before filming Palo Alto when
he was 16 years old, Kilmer had never acted before, and did not aspire
to be an actor.
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