“Severance” Actor Christopher Walken Says He Watches the Present on DVD

• Christopher Walken, 81, says he would not personal a cellphone and has by no means emailed.
• He even watches “Severance” — an AppleTV+ present he stars in — on DVDs that the manufacturing group supplies.
• He is not the one celeb who has spoken about his technological preferences.

“Severance” actor Christopher Walken is not a lot of a tech person.

In a Wall Avenue Journal interview revealed Monday, Walken stated his relationship with know-how is sort of nonexistent.

“I haven’t got know-how. I solely have a satellite tv for pc dish on my home. So I’ve seen ‘Severance’ on DVDs that they are ok to ship me. I haven’t got a cellphone. I’ve by no means emailed or, what do you name it, Twittered,” Walken informed the Journal.

Regardless of that, he would not really feel overlooked in a world the place individuals are hooked on their gadgets.

“I’ve by no means had a watch both. But when I want the time, I simply ask any individual. Likewise, from time to time after I want to make use of a cellphone, I simply ask if I can borrow one,” Walken stated.

He additionally remembers how “telephones rang within the theater” in 2010, disrupting a play he was performing in.

“If not that, they’re taking a video of your efficiency. I assumed, that is it, it is over. I am unable to do it anymore,” Walken stated, recalling the incident.

This is not the primary time the “Dune: Half Two” actor has spoken about not utilizing telephones or computer systems.

Throughout a 2020 look on “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” Walken clarified that he wasn’t “opposed” to fashionable know-how, simply that he “acquired to it too late.”

“I believe I am proper at a sure age the place it simply handed me by, and I by no means acquired concerned in it as a result of it will be unusual to have. Any 10-year-old can be a lot better at it than I’m,” Walken informed Colbert.

Walken additionally is not the one celeb who has spoken about their technological preferences.

In 2023, Christopher Nolan stated he would not personal a smartphone and writes his scripts on a pc with out web entry so he would not get distracted.

“I believe know-how and what it will possibly present is superb. My private selection is about how concerned I get,” Nolan informed The Hollywood Reporter. “If I am producing my materials and writing my very own scripts, being on a smartphone all day would not be very helpful for me.”

Throughout a 2024 look on the “Therapuss with Jake Shane” podcast, Ed Sheeran informed host Jake Shane that he “hasn’t had a cellphone since 2015.”

“I simply was dropping real-life interplay, so I removed it; I acquired an iPad, I moved every little thing onto e mail, which I reply to as soon as every week,” Sheeran stated.

Lately, there’s been numerous dialogue round display time and smartphone use, notably amongst youngsters and youths. Even tech execs like Invoice Gates and Steve Jobs raised their youngsters with restricted entry to tech gadgets like smartphones.

Nevertheless, analysis has proven that extreme display time additionally negatively impacts grownup brains, resulting in signs reminiscent of impaired focus and reminiscence.

A 2019 examine has discovered that extreme smartphone use may additionally improve the danger of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems in adolescents and younger adults.

A consultant for Walken didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider exterior common hours.