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"Weird Al" Yankovic spoke astir Daniel Radcliffe's uncanny resemblance to him successful his biopic, arsenic good arsenic what steps helium took to marque definite the euphony successful the movie was spot on.
Weird Al REACTS to Seeing Daniel Radcliffe Portray Him
"Weird Al" Yankovic was nether a spell watching Daniel Radcliffe represent him onscreen.
The parody opus creator said it was "pretty crazy" however good the Harry Potter alum channeled him portion filming his biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, particularly 1 moment where the resemblance looked particularly uncanny.
"The archetypal country that we changeable the archetypal time was successful the flat with the set wherever helium comes up with the thought for 'My Bologna,'" Yankovic exclusively told E! News, "and conscionable watching connected the monitors, determination are immoderate shots and immoderate angles wherever it conscionable truly looked similar me."
Yankovic shared that shooting the movie felt similar "watching scenes from my existent life."
"It was conscionable an unusual acquisition for me, and it was that mode through the full shoot," Yankovic said. "You benignant of get utilized to it aft a while, but conscionable that archetypal infinitesimal of like, 'Wow, that's Daniel Radcliffe playing me.' That's benignant of hard to wrapper my caput around."
Though Radcliffe—who embodies Yankovic successful the movie by wearing a long curly wig, mustache and wired framework glasses—nailed down the popular civilization icon's physical look, the singer stepped successful to marque definite the philharmonic aspects were besides connected point.
"I was benignant of his accordion guru," Yankovic said. "He had idiosyncratic other that helium worked with for the archetypal accordion lessons, past I gave him similar 3 oregon 4 accordion lessons conscionable anterior to shooting."
He added, "Sometimes I'd leap into a changeable and say, 'No, enactment your digit here.'"
The 63-year-old noted that Radcliffe was dedicated to performing the relation successful the astir authentic mode possible.
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"It was a constituent of pridefulness that helium wanted it to beryllium a existent happening wherever helium was really playing the accordion," Yankovic said. "And helium did, helium did it right. Daniel did a large job. I'm truly arrogant of him."
Yankovic praised Radcliffe's talents arsenic "an astonishing melodramatic histrion and an astonishing comedic actor," adding that helium had "the cleanable energy" for the movie.
"We conscionable knew that helium would get it. He would get the circumstantial code we were going for, which is not casual to propulsion off," Yankovic said, "and Daniel conscionable perfectly nailed it."
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story volition beryllium released Nov. 4 connected Roku's escaped streaming channel.
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