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Christopher dancing.... The talent this guy has...
Da full sauce: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C863PD6Ovki/
Good morning Imgurian! I hope you are staying cool this fine Friday, but most importantly-- thank you for the Accolade! Christopher Walken isn't the only gem here... It's you too! Have an awesome weekend!✨
Hey Imgurian! Gotta nope on this one. Because YOU are da best one! Thank you for the Accolade! In gratitude here is some Walken trivia:
Christopher Walken grew up in Queens, New York, the middle child of three boys. His father was a baker and his mother had a fascination with show business, so she soon began taking her boys on TV auditions. That’s how Walken ended up in the above cameo role with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Despite his childhood success, Walken insists he was just following his friends.
“In the 1950s television was being born, and there was this phenomenon, about 90 live shows from New York, so there were hundreds of kids from Queens, kids from blue-collar families, doing TV shows,” Walken recalled in an interview. “In the Queens where I grew up, you didn’t go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.”✨
Aww Imgurian, you're making me blush! You truly exemplify that state of mind of a true gem! Thank you thank you! I hope you have an incredible (and cool) weekend! Please have a trivia tidbit bit:
Although he got an early start on acting, Walken tested out a few other career options. When he was 16, he spent the summer working as a lion tamer in the local circus. Or at least a lion tamer apprentice. “The real lion tamer who owned the circus, the gag was that he had a son, which he didn’t,” he told IndieWire. “But I had an identical outfit, and he would do this big act with a dozen big cats. Then he would send them all out at the end and just leave this one old girl, and I would come in with my whip … She was really more like a dog. She was very sweet.”✨
Hey Imgurian, sorry I'm late! The heat turned me into a puddle... Regardless, thank you for the Accolade! Whatever you do, may you always be happy and entertained! Please have this little tidbit:
Walken’s distinctive way of speaking has launched a thousand impressions, but the actor insists he didn’t pick up his unusual cadence for the SNL skits. In an interview with The Guardian, he chalked it up to his childhood in Queens, growing up with immigrants for whom English was a second language. This included his German father, Paul.✨
ToSisPoS
If I was dropped into a warzone, he’d be my weapon of choice.
Endocrom
the12thletter
What's even more impressive is that he did all that fancy dancing with a watch up his ass
oblimo
In every movie he's in: watch his poise. It's preternatural.
possiblyafakeaccount
Emperor Shaddam IV has got some moves!
FoxPesdassi
The only thing wrong with THIS brilliant mashup ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4T_QtiepG8 ) is that it doesn't include any snippets of Walken's Pennies from Heaven striptease edited in with the "strip poker" section of her music video.
azzabat
Well, he did start off as a dancer. Obviously never lost the skill and talent 😊
NLOVNI
He always wanted to be a professional tap dancer but Hollywood kept casting him in roles. Lots of villain roles.
Onewugtwowugs
Is that Bernadette freaking Peters bc she still looks incredible to this day.
Wirefish
Pretty sure Bernadette Peters isn’t actually human. I don’t think she ages.
peterbozeman
He dances like I drink beer; very smooth all night.
PrepareAMotherfuckerForThisShit
Tell me why I expected to hear Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas though
HamDangler7TheLuckOfTheDangle
SidneyStratton
Tarantino's injection of morbidity/absurdity into a plot device (Butch getting back to the apartment where things start going wild) is so well portrayed by Walken. Kudos to the video edits; and especially to the moving subs!
MutteringMisanthrope
thebigbaka
conjuratio
We need a dub with the Fat Boy Slim song
MutteringMisanthrope
Hubba hubba.........
GoodGuyGonzo
They see me Walken
Feralkyn
Watch the music vid for Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice. Dune-related lyrics. Absolutely wacky vid, and Walken is--as always--incredible.
RagtimeRaver
Same, Bernadette. Same.
ToSisPoS
She loves quick march.
pupquine
AMercer
I have been seeing this everywhere lately. Is there something special going on? A friend shared this with me and I said I love that movie. They said what movie? Pennies From Heaven. Never heard of it they say. Steve Martin movie? Oh it must be funny they say. Not even in the slightest I reply. Still a great movie.
vmos
Something special going on? The movie is set during the great depression and that's coming back in style
softballguy
"Pennies from Heaven," 1981. Deeply depressing, but has some fantastic numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Q11jsN54A
redtails2649
And he's not known for his dancing. A pity, he's great
martineb72
He is known in Hollywood for his dancing, because he tries to have a little bit of dancing in every movie he is in. Mostly edited out, but often just a little hop skip is kept in to make him happy.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
That’s amazing, I didn’t know that. I like that it still makes him so happy.
TheMoonBnuuy
That's a shitty pool table. Supposed to be covered in felt.
Thesaya
IT wouldn't last long as a pool table if they didn't cover it for tapdancing time...
vmos
well, it is set during the great depression, everything is shitty
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
It has felt... all the feels!
VaginaPedant
"Pennies from Heaven" (1981). Not a feel-good film.
Problemwoodchuck
Imagine walking into a theater in the 80s expecting a Steve Martin comedy and seeing that movie instead
newsguycraigevans
Yeah, but Bernadette Peters.
somnif
The original BBC series (1978) is what made Bob Hoskins a star. It was... just as deeply depressing. Dennis Potter just wrote that way.
alcamar
photo1311
Was just about to say “he still had the moves years later” and post this.
UserNamesArentEasy
The story behind this music video is kinda neat.
Weblord
Norman Cook, relaxed, in his lane. Eat-Sleep-Rave-Repeat https://blog.12edit.com/fatboy-slim-weapon-of-choice/
Weblord
The intended vid link... https://youtu.be/AaJJpjjsM0k?si=mzC7CCCRFDvU-b27
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Excludos
Christopher Walken wanted to dance. Fatboy wanted a music video. Very neat story
redundancy
Specifically, he wanted to dance one last time on camera before he was too old to dance his heart out. The stunt double in the video is obvious, but Walken got his taps in.