Christopher Walken: ‘I Don’t Have a Cell Phone. I’ve Never Emailed’ and Can Only Watch TV Using a ‘Satellite Dish on My House’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/christopher-walken-hates-technology-no-cell-phone-sattelite-tv-1236287661/

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  1. > “I don’t have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I’ve seen “Severance” on DVDs that they’re good enough to send me,” Walken said. “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered.”

  4. his most modern possession is a gold watch from the first company to ever make wrist watches

  5. I’m actually jealous. He’s probably got great mental health and he still looked great in Severance.

  9. He doesn’t because he doesn’t want to be reminded of a certain boat trip he took with some friends.

  11. Cool, my kid was a G-Suite by the time they entered highschool.

  12. It sounds impressive until you remember he’s rich enough to pay somebody to call people and email and do his business for him.

  13. If i were constantly pestered with questions from paparazzi and parasitic fans for as long as CW has I’d start telling them nonsense, too.

  15. Actual analog mental health and I respect it so much.

  18. I know tons of old people like this. This is nothing new

  19. He’s been method acting for the Dune universe his whole life

  20. And this is how Christopher walken will survive a zombie apocalypse.

  21. I remember he did an interview where he said he gets cell phones during filming on movie sets and calls other actors just to say hi. Then after the filming is over, he’s done with the cellphone.

  22. Wow really pays to be an elite multi-millionaire world famous actor.

    You think I wanna fuckin’ email ANYONE?! Hell no, I’m forced to use this technology to make a living.

    Give me a beach condo with a satellite TV and I won’t want or need for much else either.

  23. Pfft Rookie. I only communicate in letters hand written, in cursive, that I drive to the post office with my horse and buggy

  25. *I also have an agent and an assistant that do everything I need for me..*

  26. Breaking news! Old man is old! Just like my grandfather who doesn’t have a smartphone (or a mobile phone), doesn’t have a computer, and complains he can’t buy shares over the telephone anymore. Not sure if Walken has nearly 30+ year old naughty calendars on his walls that he never took down, even when the grankids were visiting like *my* grandfather.

  27. Wow. A man his age can use a universal remote. Impressive.

  28. Yeah p easy when you have an assistant. My grandpa would’ve much preferred not to have a phone too

  30. Much easier to do when you’ve had assistants do everything for you since the 70s

  31. It sort of makes me sad when old people start to develop this “stuck in their ways” attitude. My mother pretends she is helpless with all technology so everyone will assist her. But the lady has a 134 IQ. So I finally tell everyone to stop helping her be useless for no reason and if she wants to hang out, don’t invent some excuse. We still talk all the time but she has managed to work out her personal computer, cell phone, tv, online banking, CarPlay.

    My gut says Walken doesn’t want to try for some other reason than it’s too complicated because he’s too old.

  32. When you’re rich…you don’t have to engage with people as much

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