For a while, Christopher Walken felt like "troubled guys" were the only types of roles he was being offered, and he knows when it began. "In Annie Hall, I played a suicidal guy who drives his car into traffic," he says in his matter-of-fact, stilted, utterly Walkenesque way. "Then in The Deer Hunter, which came immediately afterward, I shot myself in the head. I was playing these disturbed people. That might have been when that started." When asked if that bothered him, he plainly says, "Listen, I'm lucky."
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- 5/13/2016
- Rollingstone.com
It was the 1990s, the early days of reality television, and legendary actor Marlon Brando had an idea. Perhaps he was inspired by MTV's “The Real World,” which premiered in 1992 and featured a house filled with cameras. Christopher Walken recalled the strange phone call he got from Brando during an appearance on “Late Show” Wednesday night. See video: Watch the Supercut of Every Christopher Walken Dance Scene Apparently, Brando reached out to Walken because of “Pennies from Heaven,” a 1981 musical film that Walken starred in. He was looking to track down “Pennies from Heaven” choreographer Danny Daniels, whom Walken was still in.
- 6/12/2014
- by Jason Hughes
- The Wrap
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