Christopher Walken: Bad Guy Does Good

Christopher Walken: Bad Guy Does Good

Christopher Walken: Aidin Vaziri | Meeting Christopher Walken for the first time is a strange experience. He's played so many bad guys and weirdos in the approximately 100 films he's made that you don't know whether you should shake his hand or leap out the window fearing for your life. Wearing matching black drawstring pants and T-shirt, with an oversize blue linen shirt, he walks into a room at the Clift Hotel and offers a brief, noncommittal handshake. He's not nearly as intimidating in real life as on the screen, but there is an eerie intensity behind his pale blue eyes and the stop- start rhythm of his voice that suggests you shouldn't turn your back on him while he pokes at a block of Brie with a small cheese knife.