Favorite Male Stars – Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is a talented actor, dancer, thespian, comedian and writer. Throughout most of his career, Walken has tended to specialize in playing villains and unbalanced types, though he has had the opportunity to play different kinds of parts on occasion. For instance, he once played the cat in one of his favorite projects, Puss in Boots, a movie where Chris could be seen singing, dancing, and performing cat-like movements with a feline perfection.
Chris also had a chance to show off his dancing talents in the film, Pennies from Heaven, where he stole the show with a top notch dance routine. Later, at one particularly memorable party, Walken was personally praised by both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly for his performance in Pennies from Heaven, a film that would also turn out to be MGM’s very last musical.
“But I do consider Pennies from Heaven, the musical. I’m very happy to have done that because it was the last musical ever made by MGM. MGM made all these classic musicals and then around 1980, the studio was purchased by Sony and the name changed. But when I did Pennies from Heaven, it was still called MGM. I remember that I dubbed my taps on the same little parquet floor that Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor, all those people, used.” — Chris Walken: Empire Magazine, March 2002.
Most of the world was finally made keenly aware of Walken’s exceptional dancing ability when he starred in the Fatboy Slim music video, Weapon of Choice. Finally, an entirely new generation found an opportunity to know Walken in a different light. Instead of the villain, they were introduced to the song and dance man who had been there all along.
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