Val Kilmer slammed for 'creepy' Blanchett tweets

Val Kilmer has been accused by fans of "creepy and obsessive" behaviour towards actress Cate Blanchett.

The Top Gun star posted a series of tweets referencing Blanchett directly, admitting to having "dreams with her", and posting photos of the actress.

"Once I flew all the way to Australia just to talk to Cate Blanchett. Her husband met me first. Or, instead, I guess, to be accurate," he first tweeted last week.

"And recently I've had 2 dreams with Cate Blanchett in them. Her husband wasn't in either of them," he continued.

A Twitter backlash soon followed, with one user writing: "Val Kilmer, you're being super creepy and obsessive now let it go."

"Not too creepy, Iceman," another joked.

But the Batman Forever actor did not stop there, continuing on what would become a series of tweets regarding his fascination for the actress.

"She's just as amazing in person. Some super stars aren't - Some superstars don't do a thing to ya in person - Cate is so real it's almost unreal," he wrote.

"Once I did a cameo just to hang with Cate Banchett, who picked up a shovel in our sc. I was so dazzled by HOW she picked it up I forgot my line."

The strongest backlash came when Kilmer posted a photo of Blanchett, reading: "I mean even if she couldn't act you know what I mean?".

"Yeah I'm sure her husband wouldn't think you loving her as much as you clearly do is ok though," one user wrote.

Kilmer replied, saying: "She's had to deal with her beauty and attraction and fame for 25 years. You think they are Quakers or something?"

The 57-year-old actor tweeted about Blanchett five more times after that, explaining his fascination and saying she "would back up every word I say".

It is not the first time Kilmer has been public about his "love" for Blanchett.

In an interview with Vulture earlier this month, he said he had met her at the set of Terrence Malick's Song To Song, and said he is "all the way in love" with her.

In a 2006 interview with Elle, Kilmer said he had lost Blanchett's number after getting it at a party.

"Did you make your feelings for her known?," the interviewer asked.

"I think she probably got a sense of it when I not only forgot my dialogue in the scene, I forgot that I was acting, I forgot I was on a movie set, and I just stood there staring at her," he replied.