It's hard to imagine life without the internet nowadays. A lot of our jobs are tied to technology, whether it's social media or typing away on a computer, it's unavoidable. Social media has made the experience addictive too, where we can hardly function without our faces glued to a screen. That's why Christopher Walken is fascinating: apparently, he doesn't have any of this stuff. The furthest it goes is a satellite dish for his TV.
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Recently, Christopher Walken spoke with the Wall Street Journal for an interview to promote his role on Apple TV's Severance. There, he admits that he essentially has no relationship with modern technology. It's so bad, that Apple had to send him DVD copies of his work on the show because he doesn't do streaming. You can't call him or email him either. If he wasn't an actor, no one would know where Walken is.
"I don't have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I've seen Severance on DVDs that they're good enough to send me," Walken says. "I don't have a cell phone. I've never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered."
Christopher Walken Doesn't Do Phones or Email
So, if Christopher Walken doesn't do basic forms of communication like email or cell phone, how in the world does anyone contact him? Do people know where he lives? Does his agent deliver him potential roles in a file like a government agent? As confused as I am, I'm also a little jealous of Walken. There are many days I wish I could just disappear from the internet with my media archives and go MIA. It must feel truly liberating to have no ties to a phone or the internet.
So how does Walken take his jobs? Apparently, it's just one thing at a time. The actor details his mindset when taking on various roles.
"I don't think I've ever finished a job and knew what the next one was," he says. "'Why did you make that choice?' I hear that a lot. And the truth is I don't make choices. I take jobs. I take the next best thing. And that has to do with art, who you're going to be with, sometimes with the location, how much they're going to pay you. All sorts of things. I wish I could make choices."
