![]() ![]() Demento, and Julianne Nicholson and Toby Huss as the musical funnyman’s parents. The film version stars Rainn Wilson as Yankovic’s mentor Dr. In 2010, Yankovic and Appel released a three-minute mock trailer for a film that they also called Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The clip featured Aaron Paul, Gary Cole, Olivia Wilde, Mary Steenburgen, and Patton Oswalt. “But they’re like, Oh, yeah, all public figures - go for it.” “I’m amazed the lawyers let us get away with this movie, frankly,” Yankovic said. Weird also features Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, who did not participate in the film. “Why did we change it? Just ’cause that’s what biopics do.” Seeing those changes inspired him to craft his own fictionalized storylines in Weird, including how he came up with his song “My Bologna.” “I did record it in a bathroom but not in a bus station,” Yankovic confirmed. ![]() “I guess they thought nobody knows who Long John Baldry is.” “Everybody who’s an Elton John fan knows it was inspired by Long John Baldry,” Yankovic said. Then it progressively goes way off the rails.”īritney Spears Says She'll 'Probably Never Perform Again': I'm 'Pretty Traumatized' “We want to lead them down a path and think, Is this a real biopic? Is this the real story? The movie starts out pretty normal. “I hope this confuses a lot of people,” Yankovic said in the interview. Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual. 4, added, “There was definitely a freedom in the version of Al that is in the script. The actor, who was hand-picked to play Yankovic in the musician’s forthcoming Roku biopic, out Nov. In a new interview with The New York Times, Radcliffe compared the scene to his work in Swiss Army Man, noting that “maybe only Paul Dano riding me like a Jet Ski in Swiss Army Man comes close to the weirdest thing I’ve ever done.” Weird: The Al Yankovic Story star Daniel Radcliffe says shooting a scene where a fictionalized Weird Al Yankovic goes on a drug trip and hatches from an egg is the second strangest thing he’s ever done onscreen. ![]()
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