The movie version of Ralphie that people everywhere know and love is recognizable for his blond hair and big blue eyes, and Andy Walker has both.
Yes, 11-year-old Andy Walker of Seattle has won the coveted role of Ralphie Parker for A Christmas Story Live! The young actor is relatively new to showbiz, as his first credited TV role was in a 2015 episode of NCIS.
I can practically already hear him saying “A crummy commercial?” in despair after a decoder ring adventure gone wrong.
Walken doesn’t quite have a high-enough profile for any of us to gauge how well he’ll do as Ralphie, but I think we can probably all agree that he certainly looks the part.