Christopher Walken

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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You read that right: Chrsitopher Walken! One of the greatest character actors ever. So many iconic parts: King of New York, Pulp Fiction, The Deer Hunter, Catch Me If You Can, and Hairspray. These days, you can see him on the dystopian workplace dramedy Severance. Christopher Walken talks about Severance and working alongside John Turturro. He'll also get into his days as a child actor and gives us a history lesson about the early days of television. After all, he's been working in showbiz for over 60 years! Plus, we get into one of his most memorable moments on Saturday Night Live.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:20.4	My first guest this week is Christopher Walken.
0:23.3	He and I talked from his home.
0:26.4	Walken is a great character actor.
0:29.3	Maybe one of the greatest ever?
0:31.4	So many iconic parts came with New York pulp fiction Saturday Night Live.
0:35.8	I could go on basically forever.
0:38.4	These days you can see him on Severance.
0:40.4	It's a new TV show written and directed by Ben Stiller.
0:45.2	Severance is a sort of dystopian workplace dramedy.
0:49.1	It's set mostly inside the confines of a giant bleak office building.
0:54.2	When employees there start their work day, they forget completely about their personal
0:59.0	lives.
1:00.0	When they go home, they forget completely about their work.
1:04.6	What could possibly go wrong?
1:06.9	Along with Walken, Severance stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arcatt and John Tertura.
1:12.0	It's airing now on Apple TV+.
1:15.0	Walken's character is a middle manager named Bert.
1:18.8	In this scene he's wandering the sparse, severe halls of the Lumin Industries office.
1:25.9	He runs into John Tertura's character, Irving.
1:29.2	The two are looking up at a huge grotesque painting on the otherwise bare wall.
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