CHRISTOPHER WALKEN NEVER SET OUT TO BE AN ACTOR

Christopher Walken began his career as a song and dance man, falling into acting.

New York born Christopher Walken grew up a showbiz kid taking dance classes in tap and ballet and began his career as a song and dance man on Broadway making his debut with a former Hofstra University classmate Liza Minelli in Best Foot Forward as well as touring with the 1964 production of West Side Story.

His first movie musical was playing a villainous pimp in Pennies From Heaven. Starring in Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad, the husband to John Travolta’s Edna, Christopher says his career as a serious actor was not what he set out to do.

“I did a lot of musicals I would say till I was about 30. That’s what I did. Then I got a job in a play and from that I got a job in a movie. My career as an actor really is kind of accidental. I never set out to be an actor. I was in musicals.”

Christopher shows off his love and Fred Astaire moves dancing with John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the musical number You’re Timeless to Me.

“I kind of think of him as Jack Sprat and he’s crazy about Edna. He’s a man madly in love after many years of marriage. Yeah I’m madly in love.”

Next Christopher will star in the comedy Balls of Fury killing the father of a ping pong champion Dan Fogler.