{"id":11759,"date":"2021-11-14T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2021-11-14T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T05:30:34","slug":"walken-graffitis-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/14\/walken-graffitis-banksy\/","title":{"rendered":"Walken Graffitis Banksy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/christopher-walken-destroys-a-real-banksy-for-laughs-on-his-bbc-comedy-show-2033845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yes, Christopher Walken Personally Destroyed a Genuine Street Artwork by Banksy in the Course of Filming a BBC TV Show<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The production company behind the show confirmed that the work is an original Banksy, and that Walken &#8220;destroy[ed] it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/11\/p09ymww6-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Walken's character, Frank. Photo courtesy of the BBC.\" title=\"Walken's character, Frank. Photo courtesy of the BBC.\"\/><figcaption><em>Walken&#8217;s character, Frank. Photo courtesy of the BBC.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b\u200bAlthough Banksy has his fair share of haters, it\u2019s beginning to feel as if no one likes seeing the artist\u2019s work destroyed as much as Banksy himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, instead of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/opinion\/banksy-sothebys-art-shredded-1368280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">artfully concealed shredder<\/a>, Banksy\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0weapon of choice<\/a>\u00a0was acting legend and beloved weirdo Christopher Walken. Walken took a paint roller to one of the anonymous street artist\u2019s signature stenciled rats in the final episode of the BBC limited series \u201cThe Outlaws,\u201d which aired in the U.K. Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comedic crime-thriller follows a motley crew of lawbreakers sentenced to do community service in Banksy\u2019s hometown of Bristol, where things get newly complicated after they stumble onto an illicit sack of cash wanted by even more unsavory characters. As Walken and his cohorts continue paying their debt to society in the finale by painting over graffitied walls, his character, Frank, a small-time career criminal, encounters the rat image accompanied by two cans of spray paint and Banksy\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDiane, look at this rat I found,\u201d he says to his probation officer. Without lifting her eyes from her novel, she instructs Walken\u2019s character to bag and bin any vermin under 10 kilos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/christopher-walken-destroys-a-real-banksy-for-laughs-on-his-bbc-comedy-show-2033845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Yes, Christopher Walken Personally Destroyed a Genuine Street Artwork by Banksy in the Course of Filming a BBC TV Show The production company behind the show confirmed that the work is an original Banksy, and that Walken &#8220;destroy[ed] it.&#8221; \u200b\u200bAlthough Banksy has his fair share of haters, it\u2019s beginning to feel as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}