Christopher Walken vs. Mickey Rourke
Make sure you make it until the last question.
MR: Are you living out in Connecticut still?
CW: Yeah. If you're ever taking a drive, come see me.
MR: I remember many, many years ago, I was at your house. We were with that guy, Lenny, and he was looking for a bottle of wine or something, and he looked in your cabinet, and he found your Academy Award mixed in with the booze.
CW: Well, I've got this little room now where I keep all sorts of those things. But I remember, yes, I had just had all this gravel put down, and we were -standing outside, and you said to me, "Good gravel."
MR: You did have an awful lot of gravel in the front yard. Have you been back to the Actors Studio at all?
CW: Hardly. Though about a week or two ago I was in the neighborhood, and I just dropped in. It's good, because it's sort of the same, except it's got fresh paint on it. It was on an off day, and there was nobody there. The place was clean and painted. But it still looks the same.
MR: We had some characters there back in the day.
CW: We did. It was funkier.
MR: It was like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
CW: A little bit. Remember the director sessions, where they used to attack each other?
MR: Yes. It depended on who was moderating. When Shelley Winters moderated, I usually went out and smoked a cigarette. She had that screechy, kind of nails-on-the-chalkboard voice.
CW: Listen, it was a great place to meet girls.
MR: Yeah, well, I never saw you with any.
CW: Well, I used to follow them out.
MR: I just used to follow Al Pacino and you out. And Harvey Keitel. I didn't give a fu** about the girls. I just wanted to see which way you guys were going.
CW: So you're going to be busy for the next while.
MR: Yeah. You went through this, right?
CW: Well, it's a wonderful thing. You made something really beautiful, and maybe that's even more important than awards. Thirty years later, you're one of the top actors doing important work, and that's very powerful. You know, there's an old saying: "Nothing happens 'til it must." I like that.
MR: Let me ask you one question.
CW: Yeah.
MR: Where did the dinosaurs go?
CW: They're sitting in the tree outside.
Mar 15th