“Having a computer for me is a little bit like having a wristwatch,” explains Walken. The kid must have been terrified, but Walken remembers it as “marvelous.” During a recent phone call, Walken recalls a long-ago trip to the Sicilian countryside where a child of about six years old pointed at him and called him “Max”-as in Max Shreck, the Batman Returns villain who throws Michelle Pfeiffer’s Cat Woman through a sky rise window. Even in other countries, though, he’s associated with his movie bad guys. Maybe it’s his cold blue eyes or the threatening whisper, or the fact that he doesn’t seem like a hugger. Walken has spent decades playing sociopaths, murderers, mobsters, and villains that give great monologues. Walken’s playing a longtime con-“a lying, thieving, selfish old bastard who can never be trusted,” his daughter warns her children-who needs a permanent residence where he can be placed under house arrest. The reunion isn’t motivated by love or affection, but criminal punishment. who sees that he does do that for his actors.When we meet Christopher Walken’s character on Prime Video’s endearing new British comedy series The Outlaws, he is at the front door-greeting his daughter ( Dolly Wells), teenage grandson ( Guillermo Bedward), and granddaughter ( Isla Gie), after an eight-year estrangement. Movie scripts.don't usually give you a lot of interesting things to say. "He writes great big juicy chunks of dialogue. He was drawn to "Psychopaths" by the chance to work with Rockwell again, and with Farrell and Woody Harrelson for the first time. That co-starred Walken's "Seven Psychopaths" counterpart, Sam Rockwell. He fell in with McDonagh's writing when they mounted the play "A Behanding in Spokane" in New York a couple of years ago. He works, a lot, but says he's at a loss when he doesn't know what his next part will be. Walken seems to have an innate ability to connect with viewers in all sorts of roles - heroes, lovably vile villains, Working Class Joes and not-so-innocent-bystanders. But Hans is also the moral center of the film, the one who wants to show Colin Farrell's character the way - of peace, of pacifism. "Technically," there's something kind of psychotic about Hans, his character in the film. "He can be sinister and menacing just as brilliantly. "He's such a great actor that the comedy is never funnier than when he's doing comedy," McDonagh ("In Bruges") says. It's about a screenwriter ( Colin Farrell) writing a script about "seven psychopaths," and the ways he invents, or meets, characters who match that description. In "Stand-Up Guys," he teams up with fellow screen legend Al Pacino.Īnd in "Seven Psychopaths" (opening Friday), he lets writer-director McDonagh turn that recent image on its head, using Walken's natural charm and funny way with a line in a movie that is like every gonzo Chris Walken movie of yore. In "Late Quartet," he plays the ailing leader of a popular string quartet, a man whose retirement sets off a tug of war over who will replace him. Walken is anything but a mystery this fall. Colonie police arrest numerous migrants at shelter hotel. ‘That’s her’: Neighbors watch as police rescue kidnapped girl.Fingerprint on ransom note led to Charlotte Sena's rescue.Police closed sex abuse probe of kidnapping suspect last month.They do TV, and they can't use those jokes again," It's all-pervasive."Īnd if you poke fun of your image on "SNL" and elsewhere, there's a danger an actor could become a self-parody. Particularly if you're doing the sort of small movies that I do. if you do one performance on 'Saturday Night Live,' more people will see it than see you in 10 different movies. "So many people will see you doing something, that you become identified with that image, that version of yourself. "With television, an actor has to be careful," Walken says. In person, in interviews, the effect is exaggerated.īut he can control how often you hear it. No, he can't talk without halting, without seeming to consider his words, even when they're scripted and he committed them to memory months before. Starring: Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson
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