Giggles and Goofs
Christopher Walken

Catch the moving wine stain.

The wife of Christopher Walken's character in the movie Catch Me if You Can spills red wine near the left side of the carpet in one scene, but when the couple dances seconds later, the soiled spot is by the middle of the rug.

Others claim there's a shot of the New York skyline with the fully-built Twin Towers in a scene set in 1969, four years before they were finished. And Leonardo DiCaprio's pilot uniform has two rank bars on the sleeve at the tailor's, but three bars when he exits the alterations shop.

Facing off with Dennis Hopper in True Romance.

"First of all, he made me laugh, and that was very important in the scene.  The fact that I was really enjoying this guy, and then I shoot him anyway.  And the same is true of him - he really enjoyed telling me that story.  And you could see it was delightful, don't you think?  It happens to end with me shooting him in the head.  But up until then, wasn't it delightful?" -- Christopher Walken, Neon Magazine, 1997.

"Coleslaw for everyone!"

This story involves Walken and Grace Jones during the making of A View To A Kill.  On a break, they swing open the door to a pub in some grimy East European village.  Three toothless peasants turn around.  There's Jones and there's Walken, in black leather and a spiked, powdered wig. Walken looks at the peasants, drops his jaw, and roars, "Coleslaw for everyone!" -- Details Magazine, December 1993.

Watching the watch in Pulp Fiction

When Captain Koons first shows young Butch the watch, it reads about 10:10; the last time he holds it up, it reads 9:00.

Brad Senior, 'Hillbilly Lucifer' in At Close Range.

"I remember the first scene we shot where I take him [Sean Penn's character, Brad Junior] to launder the money, when I swap cars.  I did that in one take and the director said, 'Well, you sure know who he is' and I said 'Yeah, sure.'   And it was like that really from the first day.

"He was sort of the dark side of the moon of Elvis or something - somebody called him Hillbilly Lucifer."  -- Christopher Walken,Film Comment, August 1992.

Rob Lowe talks about Walken's car.

"I already know about this vehicle; it's a 1987 Caddy.  'I always wanted a Cadillac,' Walken has said. 'All my life my father was saying 'Guy's got a Cadillac!'  Well, I got one.  It's black.   Black outside, black inside.  It looks like a bullet.  A black bullet.   I had all the chrome taken off of it.  All the chrome, except the bumpers.   All the little nitch-notches, the striping - all that stuff, so it's nice.'"

Lowe laughs. "It looks like a hearse, man, but he loves that car.  In Williamstown, we'd be taking a break outside, and he'd be sitting in that car with the windows rolled up.  Just sitting there.  He'd go sit in that car and stare straight ahead.  That did a lot to dispel the rumors that he was not of this world.

"I'm a huge fan," says Lowe. "Chris is unbelievably funny. You either get him or you never get him, And if you don't get him, you go, 'Oh, Chris Walken— isn't he a weirdo?'"

"I think it's all an act." -- Rob Lowe, Details Magazine, December 1993.

A Walken favorite and nobody has seen it!

"I make a lot of movies.   I make four, um, five, six  movies a year.  I do it because I really like to work.  I really don’t have anything else to do.  Some of them go straight to video.  They’re so obscure.  I make movies that nobody will see.   I’ve made a number of movies that I have never seen.

"I’ve had some very good parts, you know, some things that I think are always very interesting to watch, like my dancing in Pennies From Heaven, At Close Range which I did with Sean Penn and things like Pulp Fiction.  I also like my angel movie, The Prophecy.

"Puss In Boots, it’s really one of my best movies.   Nobody has ever seen this."    --  Christopher Walken, Empire Magazine.

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