Christopher Walken’s Life Without a Cell Phone: No Email, Lots of ‘Severence’ DVDs

At 81 years old, Christopher Walken lives an almost-Luddite lifestyle and wants to keep it that way.

The Severance actor spoke to The Wall Street Journal while promoting the psychological drama's second season and revealed that he isn't the most technologically savvy. For Walken to watch the first season of Severance, Apple TV generously sends him physical DVD copies of the show.

"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 told the publication. "I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered."

In 2020, Walken appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and shared 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," said Walken to Colbert, in a virtual interview.

On his decision to embrace tech-free living, Walken denied being opposed to devices saying, "I just got to it too late."

"I think I'm right at a certain age where it just passed me by," he continued. "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."

Along with denying that he's texted, if Walken takes a role that requires him to have a phone for filming purposes, it's given to him, although intended as a "tracking collar." "If I want to use it, someone has to dial it for me, that kind of thing," he said.