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An offbeat talker; a light mover. “I had the speech for about four months, and I think it was eight pages long,” he says. “So he had something to do.” He taps his chin, thinking. The pair have known each other for close to four decades, first meeting at a party for the Yale Drama School sometime in the early Eighties (Turturro had just graduated; Walken was passing through).

“I spent a lot of time with her because she’d be on the set, and I liked her very much,” he says. “Quentin said somewhere that he wasn’t going to make any more movies, but I hope that’s not true.” He’s talking about Tarantino, who pledged a few years ago to make just one more film – bringing his filmography to a total of 10 movies – before throwing in the towel.

He is marvellously haunted in the 1983 Stephen King adaptation The Dead Zone, as a schoolteacher struck by premonitions of the future, and a vision of paternal cruelty in the crime thriller At Close Range, released in 1986. But even though Severance often keeps them apart – Burt retired at the end of season one, meaning his two lives have been reduced to one – it’s the most they’ve worked together so far.

“And when you can finish off each other’s sentences or laugh at each other’s jokes, it counts for a lot when you’re playing parts like these.” He smiles. If he is gay, he is not publicly out of the closet (though there have been rumors that he's bisexual). Did you know that his name’s not even Christopher? The facts of his biography are often so wild that they sound made up.

We’re like a tribe, a family. Somebody once said that children are a miracle. "The truth is that I don't really make a distinction there. “It’s a Severance kind of thing,” he laughs. An image in a rap lyric. “We’ve had our ups and downs together,” Walken continues. “It’s happened once or twice, but it’s rare. On-screen, he can be cool, psychotic, slippery, wise.