And I made a rather good movie with him called Envy.” The show was also a chance to reunite with Turturro, the actor and filmmaker who directed Walken in a number of movies, including the recent Big Lebowski spin-off The Jesus Rolls. I worked with him in a play when, I think, he was a teenager. I was friends with his father and mother. Walken says he agreed to do Severance in part because he’s known Ben Stiller, a producer and director on the series, “since he was a young boy. In the latter program, Walken shares a tender relationship with John Turturro. Courtesy of James Pardon/Amazon.Įven with that otherworldly quality, the actor can still deliver unexpected sweetness-as he does in both The Outlaws and Severance, Apple TV+’s hit dystopian drama. But ultimately, he’s just another petty thief like everybody else." “We’re in this provincial world, and then in comes this charismatic figure like he’s just fallen to earth. “I like the idea of this man who fell to earth, this kind of almost alien presence in Bristol,” Merchant told press last year.
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The series was partly inspired by Merchant’s parents’ work in community service Walken seemed like a natural fit for the most far-out of these parts, given the actor’s inherent otherworldliness. Stephen Merchant was so keen to cast Walken that the British director and producer tracked down the actor at his Connecticut home to pitch him on the role. I don’t have a computer, but I of course used computers. “If you need to know the time you ask somebody, because everybody’s got one. “Having a computer for me is a little bit like having a wristwatch,” explains Walken. The man also does not carry a cell phone or use a computer-and did not bend during the long pandemic quarantine. The kid must have been terrified, but Walken remembers it as “marvelous.” During a recent phone call, Walken recalls a long-ago trip to the Sicilian countryside where a child of about six years old pointed at him and called him “Max”-as in Max Shreck, the Batman Returns villain who throws Michelle Pfeiffer’s Cat Woman through a sky rise window. Even in other countries, though, he’s associated with his movie bad guys. Maybe it’s his cold blue eyes or the threatening whisper, or the fact that he doesn’t seem like a hugger. Walken has spent decades playing sociopaths, murderers, mobsters, and villains that give great monologues. Walken’s playing a longtime con-“a lying, thieving, selfish old bastard who can never be trusted,” his daughter warns her children-who needs a permanent residence where he can be placed under house arrest. The reunion isn’t motivated by love or affection, but criminal punishment. When we meet Christopher Walken’s character on Prime Video’s endearing new British comedy series The Outlaws, he is at the front door-greeting his daughter ( Dolly Wells), teenage grandson ( Guillermo Bedward), and granddaughter ( Isla Gie), after an eight-year estrangement.
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