Dave rosin hedley biography of christopher walken

BySarah Crocker

Sure, Christopher Walken is weird. At least, the persona that he's built up over decades of acting has a reputation for being offbeat, eerie, and sometimes utterly menacing.

By now, it's become more or less his thing, though it's worth remembering that Walken has also garnered acclaim for serious roles, including his Oscar-winning turn as a traumatized Vietnam War vet in 's "The Deer Hunter."

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But what of the real-life Walken?

Surely he's quite different from, say, his eerie psychic character of Johnny Smith in "The Dead Zone" or the complicated, comedic evil of Hans in "Seven Psychopaths." As it turns out, Walken the man is pretty standard, as far as day-to-day human life goes.

He enjoys normie things like cooking (his true hidden talent) and has told reporters that he'd really prefer to break out of the weirdo typecasting more often (though in the past he's