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The View
12 March 2010 |
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
October 2009
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Chris on Green Day
Video 4
Poker Face Halloween
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
July
2007
Video
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
Video
The Today Show
July 2007
Video
Regis and Kelly
July 2007
Video
Henry Rollins-Show July 2007
Video
1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video-Interview on Hairspray
Christopher Walken never set out to be an actor
(Video)
Regis and Kelly Man of the
Year, October 2006
Video(cut)
full
Video
Conan o'Brien Man of the Year, Sept. 2006
Video
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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."
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NBC News Today
The
Wedding Crashers, July 2005
Video
Late Show with David Letterman
The Wedding
Crashers, June 2005
Video
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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.
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Conan o'Brien
The Rundown, October
2003
Video
Late Show with David Letterman
2004
Video
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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.
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Ellen Degeneres
June 2004
Video
Regis & Kelly
The Stepford Wives,
2004
Conan
o'Brien
Around the
Bend, September 2004
Video, part 1
("Gesundheit")
Video,
part 2 (zombies and cowcraps)
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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.
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Regis
& Kelly
Around the Bend,
September 2004
Kickin'
it
Byron Allen,
Man on Fire 2004
Entertainers Byron Allen,
Around the Bend 2004
Video
Sunday Morning
2004
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"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.
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Denis Leary Roast Hands of the Soul 2004
Charlie Rose
2003
Video
www.charlierose.com/guests/christopher-walken
Charlie Rose
The Master of Menace 2002
Video,
part 1
Video, part 2
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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
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Conan O'Brien
2001
David Letterman
2001
Video
Conan o'Brien
2000 The Opportunists
Conan o'Brien
2000 (?)
Seite/page 2
(TV)
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(best of SNL)
Seite/page
4 (Walken hosting SNL)
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