--- title: Hotel Provides Christopher Walken Photo, Weird Guest Request description: A guest staying in a hotel in Kilkenny, Ireland had the strangest request involving a portrait of Christopher Walken in 'Pulp Fiction.' canonical: https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-12T15:05:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:44.217Z og:title: Hotel Fulfills Guest's Weird Christopher Walken Request og:description: It involves a portrait of the actor from 'Pulp Fiction' og:url: https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hotel Fulfills Guest's Weird Christopher Walken Request twitter:description: It involves a portrait of the actor from 'Pulp Fiction' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Hotel Fulfilled The Strangest Christopher Walken-Themed Request For a Customer > Sponsored content. 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According to a [Facebook post](http://time.com/4728052/facebook-messenger-m-digital-assistant-aide/) shared by both the guest Daniel Buckley and the Pembroke Kilkenny Hotel, Buckley asked for a framed picture of Christopher Walken (signed, if possible) from [_Pulp Fiction_](http://time.com/3505849/pulp-fiction-20-years/)in the special requests section of his booking. The rationale he offered for this strange request? “My father was an assistant to Mr Walken for this film and this was his greatest accomplishment. We would like to be reminded of this.” While Buckley later admitted to radio station KCLR96fm that the backstory was made up, the Pembroke Kilkenny delivered his special request, printing out a photo of Walken in _Pulp Fiction_ and even going so far as to have one of their employees copy Christopher Walken’s signature onto the photo. In an interview with the [_Irish Mirror_](http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/lad-asks-strange-request-irish-10211083), hotel manager Courtney said that while she wasn’t sure if the story was true, she was more than happy to fulfill the request. “We definitely like to acknowledge guests requests, what people are looking for,” she said. “This was a little bit different, so we said, ‘why not?'” See the full post below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/"},"headline":"This Hotel Fulfilled The Strangest Christopher Walken-Themed Request For a Customer","datePublished":"2017-04-12T15:05:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:44.217Z","description":"It involves a portrait of the actor from 'Pulp Fiction'","url":"https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4736026/christopher-walken-irish-hotel-request/","name":"This Hotel Fulfilled The Strangest Christopher Walken-Themed Request For a Customer"}}]}] ```