"Weapon of Choice" is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim from his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.
[2] The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features actor Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby.
Directed by Spike Jonze, it features actor Christopher Walken, who trained as a dancer in musical theatre before his acting career.
[4] Fatboy Slim had originally been scheduled to have a cameo in the video, replacing Walken in the harness shots, but was unavailable that weekend because his wife, Zoe Ball, was giving birth.
[4] In the video, Walken is relaxing in a chair in a deserted hotel lobby when he hears the song being played from a radio on a cleaning cart nearby.
The clip was also ranked number one on a list of the top 100 videos of all time by VH1 in April 2002 compiled from a music industry survey.
[7][8][9] In 2012, British comedian and presenter Rowland Rivron also won charity TV show Let's Dance for Sport Relief with his reenactment of the video's choreography.
[11] The music video enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the 2020s following the announcement of Walken's casting as Shaddam IV in Dune: Part Two.