One-of-a-kind Banksy artwork worth £10m destroyed by Christopher Walken on the Bristol set of The Outlaws
FILM legend Christopher Walken painted over a £10million Banksy artwork while filming BBC comedy drama The Outlaws. The Pulp Fiction star used a roller and magnolia emulsion to cover the artist’s graffiti. But the shock scene was all part of a plot hatched between the show’s creators and Banksy himself. The artwork was daubed on a wall of […]
FILM legend Christopher Walken painted over a £10million Banksy artwork while filming BBC comedy drama The Outlaws.
The Pulp Fiction star used a roller and magnolia emulsion to cover the artist’s graffiti.
But the shock scene was all part of a plot hatched between the show’s creators and Banksy himself.
The artwork was daubed on a wall of the show’s set in Bristol.
Mystery man Banksy is a fan of Hollywood actor Christopher, 78, and also appreciated that writer Stephen Merchant, 46 — a fellow Bristolian — was showcasing his home city.
A TV insider revealed: “The creative team came up with the dream scenario and got in touch with the artist’s representatives in the faint hope that he might help them.
“Then they discovered shortly afterwards that he’d been to the location where they were filming and left something behind.
“They couldn’t believe their luck as he’d painted a giant rat using his hallmark stencilling technique as well as his distinctive signature.
“His only stipulation was that they really did paint over it — and it would be his hero Christopher holding the roller.”
The scene in the show, which airs every Monday on BBC1, comes in the final episode which recently went on iPlayer as part of the boxset.
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The idea of his artwork being destroyed is a concept that Banksy has explored previously.
In 2018, his Girl with a Balloon image was sold at auction for £1million — and simultaneously went partially through a shredder that Banksy had hidden inside the frame.
