Date of birth: March 13, 1943 (Age: 73 years)
Height: 5’ 11,5” (182 cm)
Weight: 165 pounds (75 kg)
Shoe size: 10 (US)/ 43 (EU)
Hair color: Light brown/Grey
Eye color: Blue
For a bright and talented actor Christopher Walken it’s very important to always look good as curious paparazzi follow him everywhere.
In show business it is very easy to lose both yourself and your essence. The famous American actor of cinema and theater, Christopher Walken, despite his age, almost does not give up the roles that he is offered. He always regards them as a newly acquired experience.
Several times her played Hamlet and Romeo, but he believes that he played them badly. In recent decades, actor Christopher Walken appears in 4-5 films a year, and each of his films brings about 1,5 billion dollars from rentals both in America and abroad.
We can’t but agree that sometimes we can not recognize our favorite actors on the screen. Professional make-up artists earn their money for real professionalism – it’s enough to look at famous actors who become unrecognizable after applying makeup.
For the sake of an interesting role, actors are ready to lose weight or gain weight, grow hair or shave their head, spend hours in the make-up chair, to grow older for half a century or even to change gender and race.
In the movie Deer Hunter, Christopher Walken played Nikanor Chebotarevich, a physically and mentally injured soldier who, after a Vietnamese captivity, underwent a restoration in Saigon. Actor Christopher Walken had to lose weight for this role, so he ate only bananas and rice. Can you imagine how hard it was for a man to keepsuch diet regime?
But it was worth it!
The film turned out to be very strong from the emotional side, and for that it was awarded as many as 5 Oscars.
Actually, we can’t say that Christopher Walken is an actor who had to deal with great role changes. No matter whom he plays – he looks great. Of course, no one can hide age changes, but even now, in his mature age, the actor is trying to stay active and to maintain his fit.
