Question 1

True or false: Walken played a villain in the James Bond film A View to a Kill.

Accepted Answer

True. He portrayed Max Zorin, a psychotic industrialist, in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.

Question 2

True or false: Walken has never appeared in a music video despite his famous dancing.

Accepted Answer

False. He famously danced in Fatboy Slim's 2000 music video for 'Weapon of Choice,' which won several MTV Video Music Awards.

Question 3

True or false: Walken originally trained as a dancer and appeared in a Broadway production of West Side Story.

Accepted Answer

True. He studied dance as a child and performed as a dancer in the 1960s, including a role in the musical West Side Story on Broadway.

Question 4

True or false: Walken has a twin brother who is also an actor.

Accepted Answer

False. He has two brothers, but neither is a twin. His brother Ken is a stage manager, and Glenn is a set designer.

Question 5

True or false: Walken won an Academy Award for his role in The Deer Hunter.

Accepted Answer

True. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1979 for playing Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter.

Question 6

True or false: Walken once turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars.

Accepted Answer

False. The role of Han Solo was famously turned down by several actors, but Walken was never actually offered it.

Question 7

True or false: Christopher Walken was a professional lion tamer before he became an actor.

Accepted Answer

True. In his youth, Walken worked as a lion tamer for a traveling circus, a job he took after seeing an ad in the newspaper.

Question 8

True or false: Walken's distinctive pause-filled speech pattern is due to a childhood stutter he overcame.

Accepted Answer

True. Walken has said his unique cadence stems from working to control a stutter as a child, making him pause deliberately.

Christopher Walken Trivia Questions