There’s more than one way to relax when you’re not singing in front of a live audience night after night.
Spamalot actor Nik Walker, who currently plays Sir Galahad in Monty Python’s eight-times-a-week Broadway musical, says that when he’s between projects, he likes to relax at a good old American theme park — and even brings his best friend along.
“Taran Killam, who plays Lancelot on the show, he’s my theme park brother,” says Walker, 34. “We did Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel together before it closed. It was a spectacular experience. And we’re going to Epic Universe when it opens [in 2025],” he says of Universal Orlando’s planned fourth park. “We are very excited to do it!”
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Walker says he’s such a fan of the park that he’s quietly become a vacation planner for his Broadway friends.
“There was literally a point where I was just planning a theme park vacation for all the Broadway people,” he says with a laugh. “I didn’t take money for it. I just really loved it.”
He even included his wife Sarah Joyce in the action.
Nik Walker with Sarah Joyce at Disney World.
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“When I first brought my wife to Universal Studios when we were first dating, and she’s a very sophisticated person, she said, ‘Why are we going to this place that’s built for kids?’ Now she’s going straight to Diagon Alley by herself, please give me five more minutes.”
Walker says his love of parks may stem from all the serious roles he’s played on Broadway. ‘I’ve made my career playing dark, brooding people,’ says Walker, who will next star opposite Matt Damon in the upcoming film Promoters.
“I go to Disney World and Universal Studios maybe three times a year. I have a trunk of Nerf guns in my wardrobe, I’m literally staring at a Darth Star poster right now. So the idea that I’m a grown-up Kid who can somehow pay his bills has been with me for a long time,” he says. .
He adds that this is why he likes to be in such a fun, optimistic show like Spamalot. “Doing this, where I can just show up to play, is so liberating. The stakes are kind of low because it’s just like, yeah, just go up there and literally be a kid!”
As for the attention his co-star Ethan Slater has received for his new romance with Ariana Grande?
Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater arrive at a Broadway show in New York and pose for photos backstage
“Whatever brings people to the theater!” he’s joking. “The beauty of our play is that when we start, the audience is with us until the end.
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