After all, something may always get lost in translation. He’s… careful with his speech, at once casual and over-precise: at a loss for words, or maybe conveying a bigger idea in the space where they normally appear. If anything, his words seem almost too elocuted, the pauses allowing us to project something withheld, left unspoken in the black box of his mind. Walken doesn’t have the accent of an immigrant. I think maybe I talked that way.” On the weekend, he worked at his father’s bakery. I think I grew up listening to people who spoke English in a kind of broken way. Lots of Greek, Italian, Polish, German, Yiddish. “The neighborhood itself, you didn’t hear a lot of English. Walken’s mother was Scottish and his father was German both Christopher and his brothers were native New Yorkers, born and raised in Queens, where they would take the elevated train over to the city to audition for Sid Caesar’s Hour. And so did all the people that they knew, and all the people who worked in my father’s bakery.” Mr. Both my parents had accents, European accents they were pretty strong. “It has to do I think with where I come from in the city, and also the neighborhood. Walken told me in March, sitting in the solarium of the Connecticut estate he shares with his wife, former Sopranos casting director Georgianne Leigh Walken. “I guess I do have a particular way of speaking,” Mr. You know…the trailing off in the middle…without ever missing a beat…it’s hard to mistake. Along with Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, Christopher Walken is one of those instantly recognizable impersonations, even when done poorly. Not much more is needed-even without that title card, we would have known who Mr. His tongue absently poking out to the top of his lip, his left hand dug deep in his pocket while the other rises and falls at chest level, like a jazz crooner keeping time with the drums. “Wow…” he enunciates mildly, elongating the vowel. Marquand tilting his head quizzically and staring at something offscreen. Marquand’s impressions is one of his shortest: the title card reads, “Christopher Walken realizes he’s on a Jumbotron.” The screen flashes to Mr. Marquand-who once played Paul Newman on an episode of Mad Men -has that uncanny mimic’s knack not just for nailing the way famous celebrities sound, but, as evidenced in the small absurdities of banal activities-“Michael Caine tries to open a jar for someone,” “Harrison Ford loses a sneeze,” “Al Pacino misses a straw with his mouth,” etc.-how they fill the space around their words.
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As the sixth season of The Walking Dead wrapped up in early spring, one of the show’s character actors, 34-year-old Ross Marquand (Aaron), showed off his lighter side in a video series for Condé Nast’s The Scene, titled “ Impressions of super famous people being super mundane.” Mr.
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