Notes
Wow-uh.
Christopher Walken, in a 2003 Guardian article:
“Sometimes, in a scene, without telling the other actor, I’ll pretend that I’m Elvis. I’ll just pretend I’m Elvis and the other actor will not know. And it’ll make me smile. Or even just smile inside. I’m doing Elvis and this guy doesn’t know I’m doing Elvis. I do it when things are getting stale. I’ll do it to, like, juice things up a little.”
Tell me you can’t imagine Christopher Walken saying that paragraph, word for word. Tell me you can’t imagine exactly how he’d say that. Wow-uh.
From earlier in the Guardian piece:
As a child, he used to cross out punctuation in his textbooks, something he still does, obsessively, with his scripts.
Later, in a 2004 New York Times article:
His bizarro word rhythm and gleeful disregard for punctuation makes even his most banal utterances sound dramatic. At the grocery store, he stared at a plump tomato and then put it back. ”I DON’T. Buy the tomatoes with. The stems. On them. They don’t. Degrade. They go. Down the sink. And into the WATER. Then. They get lodged in the throats of little. OTTERS.”
