See if you can spot the stuffed horse above. BY Kristin Hunt. He and his brothers were child stars. He worked as a lion tamer. He got his stage name from the nightclub scene. He starred in one of Madonna's music videos. He talks that way for a reason. He's got a theme park ride on his resume. He almost ran for president. He wrote and starred in a play about Elvis Presley, but it didn't do so well.
Marlon Brandon once pitched him a bizarre idea for a variety show. Although the drowning was ruled an accident, suspicions about foul play fueling the actress's death continued to linger. The case was reopened in , and in , Wagner was named a "person of interest," though there seemed to be no additional questions about Walken's involvement.
Cementing his reputation as a top-notch bad guy, Walken starred in A View to a Kill as the latest villain to take on super-spy James Bond played by Roger Moore. He then paired up with another intriguing actor, Sean Penn , for the crime drama At Close Range As critic Roger Ebert enthused about Walken's performance, "there is nobody to touch him for his chilling ability to move between easy charm and pure evil. Walken rounded out the decade playing a crook in Homeboy and then a man who's abducted by aliens in Communion In , he starred in King of New York , a crime drama co-starring Laurence Fishburne, with Walken playing a freed drug kingpin who plots to give his ill-begotten earnings to build a hospital for the poor.
In True Romance , Walken again made the most out of a smaller part. Walken starred in one of the film's memorable scenes as a hitman trying to get some answers out of Clarence's dad played by Dennis Hopper. The following year, Walken gave another strong performance in Quentin Tarantino 's Pulp Fiction He described the experience to Esquire magazine, saying, "Movie scripts are usually pretty loose—things change a lot.
But not with Quentin. His scripts are absolutely huge. All dialogue. It's all written down. You just learn the lines. It's more like a play. He starred opposite Glenn Close as a widower who solicits a new wife to help raise his two children. Losing the role freed up Walken's schedule to make two of his most beloved movies, Annie Hall and The Deer Hunter , which ended up playing opposite Star Wars in The Deer Hunter also won Walken an Oscar, propelling him towards a very different kind of stardom than the kind Star Wars would have brought him.
Christopher Walken has a unique approach to choosing roles: He pretty much takes them all. He's often said that if it's at all possible for him to take a part, he will, no matter what he thinks of the script.
Walken has offered a couple different reasons for this policy, chiefly that he's less concerned with the end product than the learning experience he can get from each role.
Moreover, he's credited his success to his flexibility: He knows the roles could stop coming at any moment, so he takes work whenever he can. This policy certainly explains some of the Oscar-winner's stranger roles, whether it's playing the archangel Gabriel in schlock horror like The Prophecy and two of its direct-to-video sequels or appearing in the critically panned lowbrow comedy Joe Dirt.
And that's not even getting into his truly inexplicable appearance in the colossal megaflop Gigli. Somehow, Walken's unique approach to acting is never less than mesmerizing, however high or low the quality of the material he's given.
Few of Walken's roles are quite as strange as the one he plays in 's Puss in Boots. That's right: He plays the cat. Like most of Golan and Globus' movies, it's a truly confusing experience — not least because it's a musical, allowing Walken to draw on his considerable dance experience, and his far less considerable singing skills.
Also bizarre: His costume, which looks like open-chested leather pajamas, and the seizure-inducing transformation scenes that flash between Walken and a real cat at dizzying speed. With all that in mind, you'd think Walken would chalk this movie up as one of the inevitable losses that comes from saying yes to every script. But that's not the case at all — in fact, he once singled it out as one of his finest performances!
Like many folks of his generation, Walken's first hero was Elvis Presley. As a child, he copied the King of Rock and Roll's trademark hair, and as an adult, he wrote his first and so far only play, Him, which imagines Presley's afterlife.
The play is a potent glimpse into the inner workings of Walken's mind, and what we see there suggests he's just as strange as any of the characters he plays. The play , which Walken starred in during its off-Broadway run, opens with Elvis in an otherworldly limbo, along with a couple of Elvis impersonators and Elvis' stillborn twin brother, Rob.
Among the strange revelations Walken provides in this play is the idea that Rob has been visiting Earth, and is the real reason for the world's many posthumous Elvis sightings. Audiences in the play's brief run also witnessed a foam rubber Elvis getting tossed back and forth across the stage and a recreation of his funeral with all the mourners in their underwear. The second act reveals Elvis isn't actually dead at all, but faked his death to flee to Morocco for gender reassignment surgery.
The play ends with Elvis living a quiet life as a truck stop waitress. Reviews weren't terribly kind to Him , but no one can deny it's unique. Though most people know him as a movie star, Walken has had a successful stage career that includes iconic roles like Hamlet and Macbeth. The stage is actually how he met Martin McDonagh, the writer-director of one of Walken's greatest movies, Seven Psychopaths. In an interview to promote their stage collaboration in A Behanding in Spokane , Walken revealed the play he really wants to put on — and it's a doozy.
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