You’re right, he was, I popped in to mention it. Saturday Night Live once had a funny version of what the screen test must have looked like.
Walky:
[Last lines; Adrian snuck inside the ring]
Walky: Adrian?
Adrian: Rocky!
Walky: [absently]Adrian. [pause] Hey, where’s your hat?
Adrian: I love you!
Walky: Did you see me…beat up that guy? I fell…down. On the mat.
Adrian: I love you!
Walky: [long pause] I love you…I love that hat, too. It…brings out your eyes. And that’s nice.
Adrian: [grabs and hugs Rocky] I love you!
Walky: [concentrating]I love you. I love you. [looks off]I love…bacon. What made me think of that?
Adrian: I love you. I love you!
Walky: [very long pause] Yeah.
Christopher Walken in the part he was born to play, baby -
“I can… no longer sit back and allow… Communist… infiltration, Communist indoctrina…tion, Communistsubversionand… the… international Communist conspiracy to sap… and impurify all… of… our… precious bodily fluids”
Two mice fell in a bucket of cream
A desperate fate, a struggle met
The white flow a soft cold dream
That pulled them down, a nightmare threat.
One mouse drowned, a life submit
The other thrashed, he wouldn’t quit
His life was his, and strongly earned
All the cream to butter, churned.
I’ve earned your faith, a job, a house,
As the mouse crawled out, to live his life.
I’ve earned the love of my son and wife.
I stand before you; I am that mouse.
Heh… Christopher Walken as Constable Benton Fraser on Due South. I’m just trying to picture him in the hat giving one of Fraser’s soliloquies, particularly the one about the Inuit mother giving birth on a glacier somewhere.