Val Kilmer can't stop tweeting about Cate Blanchett and it's unsettling

Clearly not one to forget crushes.
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Johnny Lieu
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Val Kilmer isn't one to forget crushes, even if it's verging on the creepy.

In 2006, Kilmer told Elle that Australian actress Cate Blanchett -- who he worked alongside on The Missing three years earlier -- was a famous woman he'd most like to have on speed dial.

Kilmer didn't tell her of his feelings on the set of the film, but just gathered she knew of his uh, thirst.

He said at the time: "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."

Fast forward 10 years, and Kilmer can't stop tweeting about Blanchett, even if it is a tad unsettling.

Take this selfie, which is accompanied with an anecdote about Blanchett's husband, Andrew Upton, who met Kilmer instead of the actress.

Yep. And it continues.

Some people thought Kilmer's series of ingratiating tweets were "creepy and obsessive." He doesn't agree, though.

Kilmer further defended his very public affection for Blanchett, which he claims to be more about "enthusiasm" than thirst.

Sure, maybe there is no thirst as he claims, but it's hard not to take a tweetstorm about your affection for one person as c-r-e-e-p-y.

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