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Theater Talk May 14,  2010  
   
   
Regis and Kelly April 26, 2010  

 

 
   
   
   
The View 12 March 2010  
   
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross October 2009
    
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Video 3 Chris on Green Day
   
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Poker Face Halloween

 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 


The Daily Show With Jon Stewart  July 2007
    
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Late Night With Conan O'Brien July 2007
   
Video, part 1 ("I'm only nine")
  
Video, part 2 (..like an egyptian)

       
   
       


Jeffrey Lyons July 2007
    
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The Today Show July 2007
    
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Regis and Kelly July 2007
  
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  leaving the studios....
       

Henry Rollins-Show  July 2007
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Video-Interview on Hairspray
Christopher Walken never set out to be an actor (Video)
 

Regis and Kelly  Man of the Year, October 2006
    
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Conan o'Brien  Man of the Year, Sept. 2006
    
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  Chris spoke to Conan O'Brien about running for president on the "No More Zoos" platform. He appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien to promote Man of the Year, his new flick with Robin Williams about a talk show host who runs for president, and on it, he discussed a possible bid for the office. "If [the people] want me to be president, I'll do it," Walken told O'Brien casually, referring to the numerous websites endorsing his presidency. "What the heck!" he added. Luckily, Walken's platform is slightly more convincing: "No more zoos...I'll let all the animals free."
 
 
       
   
       


NBC News Today  The Wedding Crashers, July 2005
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Late Show with David Letterman The Wedding Crashers, June 2005
   
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  Chris was in good spirits during his appearance on 20 June. The interview started off with the same old questions about how he got started in the business, how it was the TV era, how kids were lamps, etc. Hementioned that he recently watched a kinescope of an old show he'd done as a child and said he (Chris) looked and acted the exact same way that he does now.
At one point, there was a bug flying in front of his face and he clapped his hands together and killed it. The audience laughed. He talked about his cat bringing a mouse to him while he was doing his pre-interview for Letterman in his home. He talked about Dubrovnik a little bit. He said he had an idea for a movie where an actor only attends festivals, never actually does any real work.
He talked about Wedding Crashers a little bit. He said he hasn't seen the film yet, but will attend the premiere.
 
 
       
   
       



Conan o'Brien The Rundown, October 2003
    
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"Your hair: it is reaching to god..." (Conan)
"What's going on? It's huge." (CW)
"The color..!" (Conan, fasziniert)

Die meiste Zeit wird über das Thema Haar gesprochen. Schläft er kopfüber?
"They gave me your dressing room to take a nap." "You have a nice couch." (CW)
Die Geburtstagsgeschichte: "I'm sad, it's my birthday, and I am alone..."
(egal, auch wenn er nicht Geburtstag hat), and:
"Make sure you don't tell anything..." (dann bekommt er immer Geschenke) "So you get some gifts..."
"What do you like to watch on TV?" (Conan)
"I like to watch your show.."
 

 
     
 

                                                                       "Can I touch it?- oh my God!" (Conan)

       



Late Show with David Letterman 2004
   
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"I have a car. And I use it on Sunday to get the paper..I don't drive much. (...) I have a licence. (..), I like to be driven.."
Er fährt viel zu langsam, besonders in Los Angeles, wo ihm die anderen den Vogel zeigen.
Er lebt in Connecticut; "nice place", dort macht er öfters Barbecues, aber er hantiert nicht so gerne mit dem Feuer, sonst setzt er was in Brand. Das überlässt er lieber seiner Frau. Er isst mediterran, Fisch..
Eigene Cooking-Show? Es gibt doch schon so viele, und er möchte nicht als Koch in Erinnerung bleiben..
"Now it's too late".("That's the guy with the cooking show.." no,no), dann wäre es schwer, ihn ernst zu nehmen...
Dann kommt noch Annie Hall dran: "There is a wonderful scene in the car...you were so creepy.." (Letterman)
"It's always good to be here.." (CW)
Chris erzählt über seine tolle Schärpe in Stepford Wives, die ihm so gut gefallen hat, dass er sie nachher auch noch getragen hat.
 

 
       
   
       



Ellen Degeneres June 2004
  
 
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"I'm very happy to meet you.." (CW) "We've never met before.." (Ellen)
"What do you want to say to me?" (Ellen) "I think, you're a wonderful actor." (CW)
"Oh thank you, I think, YOU are a wonderful actor.." (Ellen)
"I think, you are an amazing dancer.." (Ellen)
"I have a friend who does me on his answering machine; when I call I talk to myself..."
"Happy Mothersday.." "Happy Birthday, Mom." Rosalie lebt in Queens, sagt er; er schenkt ihr Blumen..
(Nice to know his mom's birthdate finally, May 6th. Sweet the way he wished her a happy birthday on TV.
When Ellen asked what he got her he said " Flowers. I got her everything already. ")
 

 
 
   
 



 Regis & Kelly The Stepford Wives, 2004

 

Auch hier wird ein Ausschnitt von The Stepford Wives gezeigt (auch der mit den 58 Liebesschwüren);
Chris bedankt sich für die Zusammenarbeit mit Matthew und Glenn- "in a big sandbox with these players."
Auch die Sauberkeit, auf die Chris großen Wert legt, kommt zu Wort- er räumt immer alles selber auf.
Regis asked him what it was like to play a grandfather for the first time...he said:
 "It was a shock!...I've been in showbusiness my whole life, and suddenly, I'm the oldest guy in the room!"
Chris said hi to Kelly's 16 month old who was born the day Chris appeared on the show last time.---salut
 

 
 



Conan o'Brien  Around the Bend, September 2004
    
Video, part 1 ("Gesundheit")
   
Video, part 2 (zombies and cowcraps)

 

He prefers "Chris", (Christopher klingt wie ein Nieser "sounds like a sneeze);
"Christopher!" (Conan)
"GESUNDHEIT!" (CW)
"Christopher..."
"GESUNDHEIT!"
Er bevorzugt "Chris" auch, weil es so gut und zackig klingt: Chris Walken, wie: Flash Gordon..
Auf der Kinoleinwand sieht der Name Christopher aus "like a train"...
"I enjoy zombie-movies..." --- to "like" is overstated; bei Zombie-Movies kann man nie schief liegen- sei es mit einem hohen oder niederen Budget. Er persönlich würde ja keinen Zombie spielen, sondern den Hero, der das Mädchen vor dem Zombie rettet. Aber wer weiß, wie viele Zombies so in der Gegend herumlaufen. Vielleicht ist dein bester Freund einer?
Auf die Frage, ob er sich als Regisseur vorstellen könne:"I directed a little film, I wasn't good" (Popcorn shrimp, Anm.)
Es hätte ihn auch gefreut, bei den Sopranos mitspielen zu können, die Rolle bekam dann Peter Bogdanovich.
 

 
 
   
 


Regis & Kelly Around the Bend, September 2004

 

"Wouldn't you be great in the Sopranos?" (Kelly) "Yeah." (but P. Bogdanovich got the part)
....dann ist da noch der Anrufbeantworter eines Freundes, auf dem er sich selbst hört. Er selbst ist ein schlechter Stimmenimitator....but: "I do Elvis."
He showed how he left his hand- and footprints in cement...
Über ATB: ein kleiner Schock war es schon, plötzlich den Großvater zu spielen. "I like the movie".
Bezüglich des "Continental": er sah die Show, als er 10 Jahre alt war- und ist extra deswegen aufgeblieben, und jetzt spielte er ihn selber...
"What are you gonna do now?"
"I go home...and watch the show.."
 

 
       
   
     



Kickin' it  Byron Allen, Man on Fire 2004

 

It was basically a junket interview with Byron Allen for Man On Fire.
Chris seemed bored with the same old questions. (Er überspielte es aber gut, finde ich)
They talked about Jerry Lewis and about his stint as a lion tamer and about his fear of driving fast.
Chris said: "Wear your seatbelt and drive safe."

 
       
   

Entertainers  Byron Allen, Around the Bend 2004
   
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Sunday Morning  2004

 

"Können Sie sich vorstellen, dass ein Mann zugleich so viele Schinken dreht und doch so geniale Filme wie Deer Hunter, Catch me if you can...etc?" (Chris wird gleich von 2 Interviewern in die Zange genommen.)
Er ist seit langer Zeit verheiratet, hat keine Kinder oder Hobbies, seine einzige Freude ist es, zu arbeiten .....
"Working is my favorite thing..." (CW)
"I've made movies I've never seen." (CW)
Über Heavens's Gate, den finanziellen Flopp, wird ausführlich gesprochen: Chris verbrachte 8 Monate bei den Dreharbeiten und "had a great time"; umso größer war der Schock, als das ganze nicht besonders ankam.
"I do not much prepare for a role."
Als er mit der Schauspielerei begann, versuchte er immer wieder, bestimmte Verhaltensmuster zu imitieren, woran er letztendlich scheiterte. "When I began, I made researchs."
"I'm the world's worst impersonator."
Auch hier werden Szenen aus ATB gezeigt, und Chris erzählt wieder von M. Caine's Latex-Behandlungen. Chris bewundert übrigens Sir John Gielgud, der mit 96 Jahren noch aktiv war.
Man spricht dann auch noch über seine Rolle als Hessian Horseman und über seine Zusammenarbeit mit Tim Burton.
"I was very good in 'Country Bears'." Er versteht nicht, warum dieser Film so ein Verriss wurde.

 

 
       
   
       


Denis Leary Roast  Hands of the Soul 2004

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Denis Leary is an a**hole and proud of it. And that's why his friends are lining up to rake him over the coals. Dane Cook, Jim Breuer, Gina Gershon and Colin Quinn join Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien and Renee Russo in paying homage to the man who built his career on cigarettes and rage. So light 'em up and join in the fun, because the only thing that can shut Denis Leary up is a taste of his own medicine. Arriving via videotape are the disparagements of Christopher Walken, Conan O'Brien, Joe Mantegna, Rene Russo, Michael J. Fox, Jon Stewart and Peter Gallagher.
Acerbic funnyman Denis Leary gets a taste of his own medicine...

"How can a man's hand be so lovely?" "He takes hand-make-up." "..most people are scared of Denis.." "...and so I am honored to be here to honor you..." (CW)
 

 
 
   

Charlie Rose 2003
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Charlie Rose The Master of Menace 2002
   
 
Video, part 1
   
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CBS-He’s a dancer, an amateur writer, a chef and painter. But what Christopher Walken does best is act – and act like a villain.

“I have all these things that I would love to be able to do. And I can't,” Walken tells Correspondent Charlie Rose in an interview that first aired Dec. 4, 2002. “Acting is the only thing I can do.”
Ironically, it’s not something he set out to do. But Walken thinks it unlikely he would have chosen such a career for himself, had his mother not chosen it for him.
His story begins more than 50 years ago at the Walken Bakery in the Queens section of New York. That's where little Ronnie - his real name – Walken was groomed by his mother for a life in show business.
This future master of menace made countless on-screen appearances during the early days of live television in New York.
He says he did it to please his mother, who wanted him to succeed because she wanted to be in show business herself.
“Her name's Rosa Lee Russell, her maiden name,” Walken says. “And Rosalind Russell was a big star. She liked to be called Roz.”
In the end, he is grateful to his stage mother: “It was the best thing that could have happened,” he said.
After a decade of stage roles, Walken made the transition to movies in the 1970s, with supporting roles in films like "Next Stop, Greenwich Village,” usually playing the dashing but mysterious young man.
Woody Allen also hired him to play a peculiar character named Dwayne in “Annie Hall.” Walken remembers the audition well. “I think he sort of walked in. And he stayed. I never spoke to him. I mean, he stayed for a minute. And he sort of looked at me. And then he left. We didn't speak, just looked at me. And I got that job.”
In “The Deer Hunter,” Walken played another odd character - a gentle soul tortured by his tour in Vietnam, who eventually shoots himself in the head.
At the time, Walken was 35, and had never earned more than $11,000 a year. But the performance earned him an Oscar as best supporting actor, made him a major star, and set the tone for his career as one of movies' major misfits.
Just this winter, Walken got another supporting-actor Oscar nomination for his role as Leonardo DiCaprio's grifter-father in Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can." (The Oscar went to Chris Cooper for "Adaptation.")
"As I get older,” Walken jokes, “I would love to start getting the Fred McMurray parts.” He is referring to the “everyman” film actor of the ‘40s and ’50s who starred in TV’s ”My Three Sons.”
Walken has no children, but he does have a wife of 33 years. He met his mate, Georgianne, a casting director, when both were dancers in the musical “West Side Story.”
“When you met him, you knew he had this future. He was good and was gonna be better,” says Georgianne of her husband, who always had a clear idea of where he wanted to go in life. "It was a very compelling idea. And I had never met anybody like that in my life.”
She gave up dancing to marry him, but says, “I think a dancer's career is fairly limited anyway. You can't do that your whole life.”
In “Pennies from Heaven,” Walken got a rare opportunity to return to his dancing roots. He says dancing – rhythm - had a big effect on him. “I think even now, when I study a script, I hear language really in terms of rhythm as much as anything else."
“I stand in my kitchen with the script. Sometimes I read it backwards or I start in the middle. And sometimes I read it with different accents," adds Walken. "Sometimes I pretend I do a sort of Woody Allen imitation, or I do my Elvis or I do, I read it like a cowboy. It goes on and on, and in doing that, I find different rhythms.”
Those oddball rhythms have made Walken a mark for some hilarious mimics, something Georgianne sees as praise. “I think that people who do that are praising him in some way."
While others may see him as a villain, Georgianne thinks of his “great sense of humor. And I think that twinkle in his eye is always there, however scary the guy he's playing.”
That, says Walken, is the key.
“I think there's a big connection between what's funny and what's scary,” he says. “There's something about humor that strikes something like the same notes, and that both require a kind of distance.

“I think that when people see me doing horrible things in movies they also know that I know it's a movie.” Christopher Walken

 

 
       
   
       


Conan O'Brien 2001

       
   

David Letterman 2001
   
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Conan o'Brien 2000 The Opportunists

       
   
       


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