Yahoo Lifestyle Christopher Walken: ‘I Don’t Have a Cell Phone. I’ve Never Emailed’ and Can Only Watch TV Using a ‘Satellite Dish on My House’
Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nonexistent to the point that he doesn’t own a cell phone and only watches television via a satellite dish on the roof of his house. Walken had to have Apple send him DVD copies of “Severance” in order to watch his performance on the first season of the acclaimed drama series.
“I don’t have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I’ve seen ‘Severance’ on DVDs that they’re good enough to send me,” Walken said. “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered.”
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Walken earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the first season of “Severance” and called it “a very special job. It was mysterious, but funny and scary, which I’ve always felt was a good combination. Then there was the fact of [series director] Ben Stiller. I was in a play with him 30 years ago, and his mother and father were friends of mine. There’s John Turturro. I’ve known him for 40 years and we were young actors together. When you know somebody for a long time, it shows. You can tell that these actors like each other.”
Between the success of “Severance” and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies, Walken has starred in some of the most popular titles of his career in his 80s. The Oscar winner played Emperor Shaddam IV in “Dune: Part Two.” When asked if he will return for Villeneuve’s third “Dune” movie based on “Dune Messiah,” Walken said he does not know yet.
“I don’t think I’ve ever finished a job and knew what the next one was,” Walken said. “‘Why did you make that choice?’ I hear that a lot. And the truth is I don’t make choices. I take jobs. I take the next best thing. And that has to do with art, who you’re going to be with, sometimes with the location, how much they’re going to pay you. All sorts of things. I wish I could make choices.”
Head over to The Wall Street Journal’s website to read Walken’s latest profile in its entirety.
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