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Famous actor Christopher Walken recently told an interviewer that he has never owned a cellphone. The Wall Street Journal’s John Jurgensen reports:
In the sci-fi series “Severance,” workers struggle to decipher their purpose inside a mysterious corporation where they’re cut off from their personal lives. Christopher Walken came into this ominous world with a refreshing role, playing a kind fellow with a love story.
His character, Burt, developed a tender relationship in season 1 with another worker drone, Irving, played by John Turturro. In season 2, which premiered this month on Apple TV+, Burt’s story picks up in the outside world. There he has a cozy home, a husband and only a vague awareness of a mutual history with Irving.
Walken, 81, says “Severance” brought a welcome change in a prolific career peppered with oddballs (“Pulp Fiction,” “Seven Psychopaths”), villains (“Batman Returns,” “A View to a Kill”) and gangsters (“True Romance,” “King of New York”).
“I play all these unwholesome, twisted people,” he says. “But Burt, he’s a good guy.”
Walken grew up in Queens, N.Y., and trained in dance and theater. His performance in the seminal Vietnam War drama “The Deer Hunter” won an Oscar in 1979, and he earned a second Oscar nomination in 2003 for “Catch Me If You Can.” Recently he appeared in “Dune: Part Two” as an intergalactic emperor.
For 50 years, Walken has lived in Connecticut with his wife, retired casting director Georgianne Walken, whom he married in 1969. Here, he talks about playing with his cat, learning his lines and his real-life friendship with Turturro.
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