My friend is a really bit That's a man's beard right there.

That is a very nice beard.

Can we see my beard One more time and let's go and see who's got you.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Your beard is beating the crap out of my beard.

But this This took six months.

Six months?

Okay, I wouldn't have that in six years.

But we can leave that to another time.

This is nice.

This is your hometown?

Of course you're from.

Is it historia?

I'm from Queens.

Yes, Queens.

Yeah, this is very nice.

You, your family?

They owned a bakery there.

Is that right?

Yes, in a story on Broadway.

And it was there for about 60 years and my father retired it.

Zahn, now.

And what did you ever help out at the at the bakery?

I did.

When I was a kid, I worked in the back.

I, you know, did all sorts of things Onley you could make Working in a bakery sounds so sordid somehow so mysterious.

And he lived cakes.

I you know, I did kind of a cleaning up types of stuff did you make?

What would you make?

Pastries, Doughnuts?

Did you make?

Uh, I had to do something?

I had little chores.

I had to fill the jelly doughnuts.

I I used to fill the jelly doughnut some shit, All right.

I'm sure they have a you know, a high tech ways of doing it now.

But in those days, it was very basic.

Uh huh.

You had a huge can of jelly on it.

Had, like, a hypodermic on top of it.

With two needles on you take a doughnut in each hand, you're sticking on there, and then you push it down like a dynamite thing on the jelly would go into the doughnut, and it was very exciting.

It sounds you make it sound almost.

Yeah.

Like a Yeah, sensual.

Now, uh, now, also, if we're gonna talk about your past, your real name, if you don't mind me saying was what Ronald, Ronald and I changed that I was in a nightclub act about 30 years ago.

Uh, where you fill jelly doughnuts on stage.

I'll danced in a nightclub act, and the lady who was the star of the show said, I think I'll call you, Christopher.

So I did I just Just because someone arbitrarily out of nowhere said, I'm calling you Christopher, it's true.

I said, Ronald, it's hard to say or something.

So I called Christopher Wright.

That was it.

Okay, that's an interesting idea that just that that person had a big influence on your life.

And probably are they aware there's that person aware that they created the name Christopher Walken?

Sure, E.

And yeah, it was very quick.

It was like that, just like that.

But I wish it had been Chris Chris walking it z Nicer, Shorter.

Christopher always looks.

It's like a train.

You know, It's just Well, you're in charge here.

You could say from now on, in the next movie, I am Chris walking.

You know, I asked to do that a number of times and they said No, You know, I guess they pay for all those letters, right?

Right.

That's that's it.

You should change it at this point.

Just go, like for blaze walking or something really cool.

Or a Caesar Augustus.

Some wow delusions of grandeur are seeking it now.

The last time you were on this show, I remember this very clearly.

You said I remember this very well.

You said I'd love to someday have Ah, cooking show.

I remember thinking you've accomplished so much.

It just seems strange to me that you would You'd wanna go do a cooking show.

But I thought, Well, I'd watch Christopher Walken cooking show What happened to that idea?

Well, I I love cooking shows.

I love to watch them and there's so many different kinds.

And in fact, since then, I did one.

I did a a chauffeur.

Bravo.

That was on.

It was a half hour thing.

It was it was nice, but I'd like that I would like to do a cooking show or really some sort of spontaneous show.

When I was a kid, I used to watch the Dean Martin show, and you always got the feeling that he walked in and it just happened.

Of course, that's that's not true was probably very well planned.

But I always I always liked that idea that the guy walks in and who knows what's gonna happen?

We got that here, baby.

I mean, nothing way hurt this thing.

This'll, this'll just anything I come out here I mean, I don't know what's gonna happen.

I Whoa, look.

What?

But that That is what's interesting about this kind of venue.

It's like watching sports, you know, You're not really sure what's gonna happen, right?

Right.

Well, and would you do a kind of show like that would ever do like a crazy adventure show a show where you do stunts.

Would you do that?

I have an idea to do one for one of these new rocket roller coasters, you know, to go on when I went on one.

And, uh, it was really scary.

No.

So you want to show where you just ride around on a roller coaster, do a different one every week?

A different roller coaster each week.

Fly fishing something like right.

Right, right.

Okay, right now, a lot of it.

Your phone's gonna be ringing off the hook.

Now we have to talk about the Fatboy Slim video, which is everybody's favorite video this year.

Such a great video.

Such a great A great concept.

So well executed, e.

I mean, you're really you're dancing up a storm in this video.

It's great to have the opportunity to do that, you know, with my advanced age do that and they don't make musical movies so much anymore.

So the idea of being able to do that was great.

I did a couple of musical movies, uh, onboard.

I guess Spike Jones must have seen one of them and he had the idea and he approached you.

Did you know that boy Slim?

Nope.

I didn't.

No, I should have.

But my my music knowledge stops somewhere in the seventies.

Right?

Right.

So?

So you weren't but But you you when you saw the finished product, you must have been delighted.

Yeah, it was terrific.

Let's just take a quick look at a clip from this From this video, I'll walk without rhythm and it won't attract the woman walk without with.

And it won't attract the world.

If you walk without living.

You never let her.

Clinton.

That's amazing.

I love I've watched that thing so many times.

I really are Those are those hard moves to learn?

I would love to learn some of those moves.

Can you show me anything from that?

A little something a Show me in the next you need Thio.

Show me.

Show me a little something I e.

Okay.

No, e e.

I have to say, that's my favorite.

That is my favorite.

That is my favorite dance move of all time.

That one right there.

I live in the country, and that's what the raccoons do it.

Night.

Oh, Onley you with looking a raccoon and say, That's a dance move right there.

America's Sweethearts is in theaters now, and The Seagull opens August 12 at the Delacorte Theater, and people should go and see that it's always a thrill when you're on E.