CW-Video-Interview on Hairspray (Juli 07)

          Christopher Walken Interview Hairspray (Juli 07)

          Christopher Walken uncut Q&A (Juli 07)

          Audio-Interview with CW (Hairspray) (Juli 07) 
            Listen here (mp3-file)

          Interview with Christopher Walken (Juli 07)
             Christopher Walken discusses hair products and falling in love with John Travolta

          Christopher Walken will rock your world (Juni 07)
           If you ask people's opinion of Christopher Walken, you'll likely get one of two responses

        Interview on Hairspray (Juni 07)
           Oscar winner Christopher Walken, who appears in “Hairspray” this week, tells Hollywood Today
                  that there are socially relevant ties in the film.

          What Walken watches 

These boots are made for Walken
      Everybody knows Christopher Walken, right? I mean, who. Doesn't. Remember. The stilted speech? The sporadic infle-e-ections.
      The somewhat vacant look, like his mind is always on vacation even though his body is here and of course - the piercing stare.

Die Wurzeln liegen in Horst (German article)
      Hollywood-Star Christopher Walken stammt vom Bäckerei-Clan Wälken ab. Der Vater wanderte 1929 nach New York
      aus. Der Schauspieler ist einer der bekanntesten Charakterdarsteller in den USA.

Interview HoBO Magazine, Issue #7, Sept. 06
    Christopher Walken and the Productions of Time, by Brian Hendricks
      "Eternity is in love with the productions of time." William Blake
      " It's very important to get up in the morning and have work, have a purpose." ChristopherWalken

Der unheimliche Mr. Creep (German article)

2005/2006
 

Christopher Walken-He speaks!
      Besides giving Jay Mohr a career, El Mysterio has made 120 movies, tamed lions and
      ascended to the Hair Hall of Fame. Here, Hollywood’s favorite psychopath proves that he’s not just another pretty face.

Newsmakers: Christopher Walken, Nicole Kidman (Question and answer)

Actor enjoys stepping outside evil persona
     They’re called "Christopher Walken moments," and everyone who works with the chillyeyed character actor has a few.

Frequent screen villain plays nice guys, too..: For one thing, Christopher Walken once played Romeo in Calgary


It's just to good to be true for Walken  
      Despite an arduous day of interviews promoting his new comedy, Wedding Crashers, when we meet, Christopher Walken is,
      thankfully, still in high spirits.
    
With Walken, There's something in the Glare  -or here
     Christopher Walken, excuse me, sir, but what planet are you from? Did you beam down or arrive more conventionally, by
       saucer, falling star or rocket-propelled craft? (Washington Post)
    
Interview Christopher Walken
    Walken on Playing a Dad, Working with Vince Vaughn, and the Intimidation Factor

Interview Christopher Walken
      Known primarily for playing intense, unstable characters in films like THE DEER HUNTER, Christopher Walken lends his
      considerable  talent to more lighthearted fare this week in the WEDDING CRASHERS.

Christopher Walken from Dubrovnik
      Press conference with Christopher Walken on Dubrovnik International Film Festival 2005
     
Christopher Walken- Good Guy at least
      Christopher Walken is an Oscar winner, an ex-dancer, a six time host of TV's Saturday Night Live, and Hollywood's favourite
      bad guy. But in the new romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the veteran actor shows off his softer side, as a political whose
      daughters become involved with two wedding crashers. As Walken himself admits, he's not the obvious choice for this. He
      talked to Paul Fischer

Christopher Walken-Man of the Week
     A veteran actor with loads of dark roles to his credit, Christopher Walken remains one of the most entertaining, consistent
     performers of today (May, 2005)

Generations by J. Tallmer

 

prior to 2005

Christopher Walken: An Interview by Daniel  Epstein; something old, something new

Interview with Walken and Roberts
   Walken liked filming in New Mexico, as opposed to NYC, because "there was plenty of parking," and "if you wanted your trailer
      right there, you could have it right there!" 

Profile & Interview Ch. Walken
   Christopher Walken is best known for… well… being Christopher Walken. People don't remember great Christopher Walken
     movies. They don't remember that he won a Supporting Actor Oscar for Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter ...
    Video-Interview with CW

The Total Film Interview
     Terrifying. Shocking. Bizarre. But enough about the hair. Christopher Walken, America's greatest screen villain, teaches Total
     Film all about the art of the bad guy... Oct 2004

G21-Interviews: Christopher Walken
    "What about an autobiography?"Me? I would do that, but I don't think yet. I think when you write your memoirs, it's some sort
       of moment. Unless you intend to write a series. I'd write my memoirs, except I can't remember them."

CW goes around the bend
    "I’m a creature of habit. I eat the same foods almost all the time: fish, chicken, vegetables. A great dinner would be steamed
        sea bass over leeks with a nice glass of wine. And one or two scripts."

Dir. J. Robers gets personal with ATB

ATB- An interview with Chris Walken 
    Christopher Walken may be one of the most familiar faces and distinctive voices in modern movies, but seldom is he heard or
       seen responding to questions that normal folks like us want answered

Around the Bend-Interview  
   Christopher Walken dances Around the Bend and the Politics of Punctuation Across Four Decades of Movie Acting

More Cowbell, anyone?
   An interview with Christopher Walken

Another Interview
    Christopher Walken has built a mythic persona during his long and varied career. He’s often imitated, but no one has ever
       come close to duplicating his distinct style.
     
Christopher Walken loves wacky
   You do not have to tiptoe around the obvious with Christopher Walken. He knows that most of the roles that come his way are
      kind of creepy, and it does not bother him.

Interview mit Chris Walken und Jordan Roberts

Walken goes  'Around the Bend', but not into retirement
    Christopher Walken ambles in, his face pale, his hair sharp as a newly edged lawn. He grabs a bottled water that he won't open
       and slouches in a chair.

Christopher Walken: where can a song-and-dance man from queens with a reputation for portraying off-kilter spooks, deranged
      psychos, and tragic lugs wind up playing a model citizen? only in this month's remake of the cult classic film the Stepford
      wives (Interview Magazine, 2004, by Sheila Benson)

The sanest man in Hollywood
   Mention the name Christopher Walken, and anyone you’re talking to will have a very strong, concrete image
      "The interview was what they call a round-table interview, myself and four other journalists asking him questions on the film in a
     New York hotel a few weeks before the movie came out. Chris was really very nice, a little quiet at first but he opened up as the
     questions started interesting him more. He also made sure to introduce himself to everyone and signed press kits for all of us
     (J. Jacobs)

Walken pulls out his criminal side for 'Bend
     Brilliant efforts, bombs and all between, it’s hard to imagine anyone in show business having a more varied resume than
      Christopher Walken.

Walken on the Edge
   CHRISTOPHER WALKEN looks like evil incarnate. At least he can when he's asked to - which is all that counts for an actor in
     Hollywood.The Marin IJ spoke with Walken about his new film and lengthy career

Bad guy goes good
   Meeting Christopher Walken for the first time is a strange experience. He's played so many bad guys and weirdos in the
      approximately 100 films he's made that you don't know whether you should shake his hand or leap out the window fearing for
      your life.

Leaving the villains behind
   It’s a new day for Christopher Walken, thanks to roles like the downtrodden father in Catch Me If You Can and the regretful
      grandfather in Around the Bend.

Christopher Walken- an appreciation
     When he's not out walking his dog through London at 4:30 in the morning, Kevin Spacey does a killer impression of Christopher   
     Walken....

Hard working Walken tries a new role
   Christopher Walken works a lot. As best he can figure, he has made ``about a hundred movies'' since appearing in ``Annie Hall''
     and ``The Deer Hunter'' in the late '70s. That's an astounding number, given that the average Hollywood star makes one film,
     possibly two, every 18 months or so.

Walken rounds 'Bend' with complex character
    The Oscar-winning actor - whose speech, hair and intense performance style have sparked imitators and parodies - gives a
       sober, sweetly affecting performance in ``Around the Bend'' as the most troubled of a family's four generations of men.

Marching to a different drummer
    Christopher Walken has done comedy and song and dance, but most people associate his characters with psychosis.

Christopher Walken-Interview
    We talk with the king of creepy villains and memorable quotes about his latest, Around the Bend.

Chris Walken on "Around the Bend"
    Promoting “Around the Bend,” Walken seemed more than happy to discuss both his latest film and his lengthy career. He was
       also willing to indulge silly questions
 
  An Interview with Christopher Walken by Peter Sobczynski (Around the Bend)

Walken, the mild side (2000)
   He's one of Hollywood's weirdest actors. He plays psycho killers, demented gangsters and headless ghosts. And now he's go
      this great idea for... a cookery show

Walken Roles Mellow Over Time
   In his 36th year of marriage, Walken says young actors ask him more about the secret to that longevity than about acting.

Odd Man In
   When in Los Angeles, Christopher Walken stays at the Chateau Marmont, not for the privacy or the cachet but because the
     rooms come equipped with a full kitchen.


Movieline's Hollywood Life
     Christopher Walken has been doing it his way since he started in show business at the age of three.  Now he’s inspiring a new 
     generation of actors,  by Lawrence Grobel, Juni 2004

Christopher Walken likens acting to baking
   Hollywood's Christopher Walken, who currently stars in Around the Bend, likens acting to baking bread, saying the more he does
     it, the better he gets.

Profile: Christopher Walken
    Phelim O'Neill praises Christopher Walken's many talents -which make him the perfect man for dancing bad guy roles

Christopher Walken
   If a casting agent wants an actor to play a deranged psychotic or unhinged thug then Walken isn't far down the list of possibles.
 

prior to 2004
 

  The Master Of Menace
     He’s a dancer, an amateur writer, a chef and painter. But what Christopher Walken does best is act – and act like a villain. (2003)

  Walken: Soul of good humour
    He stands with his chest open, like a god. (2003)

  The Walken Shtick, Creepy..and Cool
    "I've played a lot of villains because I've played them before and they work," says actor Christopher Walken.
     (Washington Post, 2001)

 
  Sight & Sound: Citizen Walken
      Can an Abel Ferrara movie really be a feasible candidate for a list of All-Time Top Ten films? Iain Sinclair makes a case for
      Christopher Walken and King of New York.


There is no Walken on the dark side..
    For a guy who has built a career playing weird and whacked-out characters, Christopher Walken can be dangerously suburban.

Walken gives tips on Faking Birthdays
    Actor CHRISTOPHER WALKEN is such a big fan of birthday celebrations that he pretends he is marking the milestone on every
      film he shoots.

  Greetings from Planet Showbiz
     Read on to discover which performances Walken considers his best, what he names as the strangest thing he's ever seen, and
        why playing Elvis as a woman was one of his scariest experiences.(Movieline, 1998)

  Walken on Sunshine
     He may have made his career playing the heavy, but the real Christopher Walken is anything but gloomy.

  Lasting impression
     “It doesn’t seem to me that I have a peculiar way of speaking ... I hesitate a lot, but that’s because ... I’m thinking about it.”
      (Empire Mag.)

  Interview with the Anti-Christ
     I'm only going to say it once: Christopher Walken is the creepiest man on the big screen.

  The CW Song and Dance,..
     I used to have an agent that told me socially I was a disaster... I used to tell her that I'd be invited to a party and she'd say,
       'Don't go, don't go.' She'd always say, 'Keep the mystery, keep the mystery 'cause you're a disaster...(BIKINI 1995)

  The Face
     From The Deerhunter to True Romance, Christopher Walken’s act as cinema’s most chilling psychopath has often seemed to real
       to be fake. But all he wants to do is make people laugh.(FACE, Juni 1994)

  Interview Magazine
     Mind-blowing in The Deer Hunter, bone-chilling in King of New York, hair-raising in Batman Returns, and, in his upcoming film,
       True Romance, he’s the “Antichrist” himself. Christopher Walken is the kind of actor who sneaks up on you, points a gun against
       your head, and says, “So, what’s for dessert?”

  In the Danger Zone
    Are you as mysterious as you look?

  People Magazine,1986
    From any distance, AT CLOSE RANGE STAR CHRISTOPHER WALKEN comes off as edgy, electric and elusive...

  All I want to do is feel the warmth
     “Those are Muhammed Ali’s. Autographed. Taken off right after a fight. And never washed,” he adds proudly.
       (After Dark, 1973)

  Christopher Walken-Dancer in the Dark
       He dances. He can carry a tune. He has become a regular host on “Saturday Night Live.” He loves Jerry Lewis, cats, Bugs Bunny,
       cooking and painting.

  No More Mr. Bad Guy
    Sipping tea on a sunny winter morning in West Hollywood, Christopher Walken sees a bird perched on a tree branch in an outdoor
       patio. The bird, a common little house sparrow seen at any restaurant picking up bread crumbs, interrupts his thoughts. (2003)

  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (12/2003)
     If any actor currently working in Hollywood summarizes the spirit of “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly,” it is Walken,

  Some short articles
      Rent, don't by  'I'm not strange!'  King of the crazies  Walken on wild side  Mr. giggles

  Dancing in the dark
     film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/
    He was a baby when he got his first showbiz break in the 1940s, and then firmly schooled in the song-and-dance tradition. So how
      did Christopher Walken end up as a master of evil? (2003)

  Behind the Freakazoid Facade
    "I enjoy being recognized," he admits. "If I walk around in New York and nobody recognizes me, I get depressed." (2002)
  
  A Tribute to Christopher Walken in Person!
    Devil or Angel: "I'd love to make a movie where there were no guns ... Jokes, a happy ending, all that," (2002)

  In Person: Christopher Walken
    In his own time he loves cooking and dancing. So has the screen’s most intimidating villain gone soft? (2002)

  You're not scared of me, are you?'
    `I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in. But sometimes I watch myself and think I am terrific.' (2002)

  Public Access
    Mad, bad and dangerous to know, king of quirk Christopher Walken takes your questions on poker, porn, Russian roulette and
       jelly doughnuts. Yep, jelly doughnuts. (2002)

  White trash on the menue
       Is this a carrot...? Walken, who was keen to play a nice guy for once, stars as a vegetarian homicide cop in Scotland Pa.

  Behind the Lens
    His script was full of notes and he talks about so many specific things and it’s wonderful.  He does crazy things.  He dances in the
       movie and I didn’t write that.  That was the first day of shooting and he was dancing.(2002)

  Coolest Celebrities of All Time

  Strange Attraction
     Despite playing more weirdos than the rest of Hollywood put together, Christopher Walken has become one of the most
        respected actors in the business.(2002)

  My Heart Belongs only to Glasgow
     "Glasgow, I find, is a beautiful city - and fascinating culturally. It was amazing, a lot of fun. I love Glasgow. It has a bad
       reputation - but all the best places and people have bad reputations." (2001)

  Walken Talking
     He actually shares beauty secrets: ‘If you have red eyes from staying up too late, you should put warm, wet tea bags on them.
        It’s very soothing.’ (2001)

  Prince of Darkness
     "When I was a boy we went on the principle that if you couldn’t swim you would be thrown in the deep end to make the best of
      it.  I was thrown into the pool and they had to fish me out - and still I cannot swim." (2001)

  Heroes of filmcritic: Christopher Walken
    With his sinister faraway stare and completely haphazard inflections, he’s often brilliantly typecast as some bizarre archangel of
       death sent from the pits of hell to mercilessly bleed his victims dry.(2001)

  The King of Newport
     "I’m pretty normal. I just play those kind of parts a lot. Villains and stuff" (Hotdog Magazin, 2001)
    
  Cookin’ with Christopher Walken
    "The problem is, when I go to Italy, I can gain 15 pounds in one week.   I’ve done it.  For an actor, that’s not so good.  It’s
       better, when you’re an actor, to go some place where the food’s not so good..." (Shout Mag., 2001)

  Christopher Walken: Praise him
    The only man who could have accurately played both Jesus Christ and Satan would be Christopher Walken. (2001)

  Christopher Walken
     No one plays the kook, the psycho, the fallen angel, the bloodthirsty ghoul better than the actor who claims he's just a regular
        Joe.(2000)

  Who's in Christopher Walken's Kitchen or here
    "My cholesterol is good. Every time I go to the doctor, he swoons in ecstasy over my blood pressure. I’ve got some incredible
       blood pressure."(2002)


  Walken on the wild side
       He used to be a liontamer, he drives too slowly and, he assures Adam Higginbotham, he’d only do a parachute jump if it took him
       behind enemy lines. And his real name is Ronald.

  Christopher Walken, Opportunists
       The thing about interviews is that you say something and then 20 years later they say "did you say that?" Yes. What did I
    mean? I'm not really sure.

  The Greats - Christopher Walken
    He can be frightening and funny, menacing and majestic, mad, bad, and dangerous to know. And he sings, too. (2000)

  Walken Must Die
     "Mystique," he repeats, when the word is applied to him – but with a peculiar dead space before the fricative: "Mess-TEE…ka."
      (2000)

  Walken is not like his film characters
     For a guy who has built a career playing weird and whacked-out characters, Christopher Walken can be dangerously suburban.
       (1999)

  Strange? I don`t feel strange
    He won`t eat in restaurants. His motivation comes from laundry. His fav role was Puss in Boots. Christopher Walken is weird?
       You tall him...(Neon, 1997)

  It's hard for me to play the Guy..
    He has been called chilling, psychotic, reptilian, sinister, ruthless,spooky, surreal, haunted, dangerous, cold to the touch and the
       creepiest man onscreen. How Strange Is Christopher Walken?

  Out There On A Visit
       Christopher Walken interviewed by Gavin Smith in the July-August 1992 issue of Film Comment

  The Devil Inside
    Words avoid him— he speaks in sentences filled with gaps, holes, ellipses, plains, and penumbrae. His eyes never quite meet
       your eyes. They are sliding to the right, to the left.(Detail, 1993)

  Off the wall with Walken
     "Interviews make me nervous". (Interview Mag., 1977)
 
  The Devil Inside
       Christopher Walken: Please send us a communication. Where are you from? What's in your mind? And what's with your hair?

 
   The Chris Walken Song and Dance, A Serious Story
     July 1995 BIKINI Magazine interview

  Walken Talks
    Truth to tell, it is rather extraordinary to be greeted by this tall angular figure with a lean surfboard and a face that looks like it
       has just crawled from under a stone.  And even more extraordinary to find the combination so devilishly attractive. (The Face,
      1985)

  Three Young Musketeers
    Like most of their neighborhood friends, they, too, have pets … the only difference being they have a few more than most. (TV
       Radio Magazine,  1956)


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    www.ojai.net/swanson/articles.htm
    www.ojai.net/swanson/thescoop.htm
    members.fortunecity.com/pri_craven/walkeninterviews.html
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