At 81, Christopher Walken’s living like it’s still the analog age – and he’s totally cool with it.
The Severance star chatted with The Wall Street Journal while hyping up season two of the mind-bending show and dropped that he’s pretty much tech-illiterate. To catch up on Severance, Apple TV hooks him up with actual DVDs of the series.
“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 shared. “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered.”
Back in 2020, he told The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that he’s “never owned a computer or a cell phone.”
“Yes, somebody had to come and set this up because I don’t have a cellphone or a computer,” Walken explained to Colbert during a virtual chat.
When asked about his gadget-free lifestyle, Walken says he’s not anti-tech – he just missed the boat.
“I think I’m right at a certain age where it just passed me by,” he added. “And I never got involved in it because it would be strange to have any 10-year-old be much better at it than I am.”
While he’s never sent a text, Walken says when a role requires him to carry a phone, they give him one as a sort of “tracking collar.” “If I want to use it, someone has to dial it for me, that kind of thing,” he admitted.
Christopher Walken Opens Up About Living Phone-Free: Skips Email, Loads Up on ‘Severance’ DVDs
