Christopher Walken is an actor known for his roles in Annie Hall (1977) and The Deer Hunter (1978). But aside from having a good reputation, people were shocked to see him tap dance so well in Steve Martin's Pennies from Heaven.
It turns out that this actor actually was a dancer first before he became immersed in the world of acting. Walken took his first lessons when he was just three years old! "It was very typical for people—and I mean working-class people—to send their kids to dancing school," he told Interview Magazine. "You'd learn ballet, tap, acrobatics, usually you'd even learn to sing a song."
He studied tap dance and toured in musicals. He’s talented in every way, from dancing to acting. "I think that if he had been around in the heyday of MGM, he would have been a big star of musicals on film," Craig Zadan, Executive Producer of Peter Pan Live! stated in an interview.
A genius from HuffPo Entertainment decided to show modern society how good the actor is at dancing by putting together one video showing Walken’s dancing in 50 films he’s starred in. While it had been taken down a few years ago, it re-emerged in 2014, and it’s honestly something nice to watch on the Internet.
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