Why do people think Christopher Walken is strange?

take everything

I always wondered this.
He's interesting. Different. Compelling.
But why do people go so far to call him strange.
Watching him on an old Letterman interview he is the most genial, cool guy you could meet.

https://youtu.be/hFWActekWZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWActekWZs

Yet people always highlight his strangeness.
I loved him in True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall (mostly off kilter characters he plays) and the fact that he's an accomplished dancer but he himself isn't really strange is he.
For example I read a mini-biography that described him as "unsmiling". But he's not. He smiles a fair bit. As in that interview. Is this projection at play here.
Thoughts?

Parchment

Do they? I think he is one of the sexiest men around.

Paleblood

take everything wrote: »

I always wondered this.
He's interesting. Different. Compelling.
But why do people go so far to call him strange.
Watching him on an old Letterman interview he is the most genial, cool guy you could meet.

https://youtu.be/hFWActekWZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWActekWZs

Yet people always highlight his strangeness.
I loved him in True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall (mostly off kilter characters he plays) and the fact that he's an accomplished dancer but he himself isn't really strange is he.
For example I read a mini-biography that described him as "unsmiling". But he's not. He smiles a fair bit. As in that interview. Is this projection at play here.
Thoughts?

Who thinks he's strange?

BattleCorp

It' his hair.

Boom_Bap

I've moved this thread from After Hours to the FIlm forum which is a more appropriate place for this dicussion.

Please, take, note of, the local. Charter before, posting. (say it in a Walken voice )

take everything

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

No one calls him strange, what a ridiculous thread. Seems like a cool customer.

This is Christopher Walken Strange googled.

So people do think this apparently.

murpho999

That video just proves how annoying David Letterman is.

Never heard people talking much about Chistoper Walken apart from his roles.

razorblunt

It's not that I think he's strange, it's just that he's exactly what I'd imagine a strange person would act like if they were trying to be "normal".
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Nah, I actually think he's fine, it's the likes of Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise that I find truly strange.

Paleblood

take everything wrote: »

This is Christopher Walken Strange googled.

So people do think this apparently.

Yeah but you could do that with anymore.

Michael Barrymore, Rolf Harris, Dale Winton, etc.

Stigura

Lorelli!

I never heard anything about him being strange ?

When I hear of him, I always think of The Deer Hunter.

Stigura

The hospital balcony scene! I'm tearing up, just thinking about it! (Oh sh!t, this is hard! ) I have PTSD. Seeing him loosing it as the Doctor just stares at him. " We've gotta get him out of here. " FFS! Too f**king real!

Kamili

Sorry I could not resist. :P

I think he is quite interesting, but I do think he goes for the quirky roles which many then perceive him as strange as a result.

Random fact - when he was 15 he worked in a circus as a lion tamer.

he also helped choreographed the dance in Weapon of Choice too apparently.

Sugarlumps

Classic Walken story.

p to the e

Well having a hand in Naomi Woods death (allegedly) would make anyone strange.

Lorelli!

p to the e wrote: »

Well having a hand in Naomi Woods death (allegedly) would make anyone strange.

You mean Natalie Woods! I forgot about that.

check_six

p to the e wrote: »

Well having a hand in Naomi Woods death (allegedly) would make anyone strange.

He was on the boat with Robert Wagner when Natalie Wood went overboard and drowned. Currently that's still recognised as an accident.
Unless you have other information?

Mickeroo

I'm not, sure why people, think he's strange. Maybe, the way he......talks?

fryup

its his face

he looks so sinister

Lorelli!

fryup wrote: »

its his face

he looks so sinister

Well he plays a lot of sinister characters but he does have an unusual thing where the sides of his mouth point downwards so it can look like a grimace and then his eyes look like they are always smiling. He was also very androgynous looking when he was younger.

I've thought way too much about this and I didn't even think he was strange in the first place :pac:

El Duda

I. See nothing, wrong. With. Christopher Walken at. All.

Tigger

p to the e wrote: »

Well having a hand in Naomi Woods death (allegedly) would make anyone strange.

the porn star?

Keplar240B

TinCool

More cow bell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeNQKk4uuI