Yankovic notes that a door-to-door accordion salesman really did come to his family's house, as one does in the film. “The amount of people that have asked me about you and Madonna,” sighs Radcliffe. Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood), desperate for the honor of a Yankovic parody, initiates a love affair with him, for instance.
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There are a few bits of autobiographic truth in “Weird,” but the movie quickly, as Radcliffe says, “goes off the rails," wildly overinflating Yankovic's trajectory and many of his encounters. “As soon as I started reading it, I was like, ’Oh, there’s nothing else that Al’s biopic could have been but something that is inherently a parody of all musical biopics." “My first reaction on hearing the idea of me as Al was, ‘Wait, what?'” says Radcliffe. Appel and Yankovic worked on a script and reached out to Radcliffe. But a string of music biopics - many of which played so elastically with the truth that Yankovic sensed they were ripe for parody - made the premise even more appealing. Yankovic would play it at his concerts and bat away questions from fans about when the movie would actually be released. About a decade ago, Appel and Yankovic made a faux-trailer for a Yankovic biopic for Funny or Die. 4 on Roku, is itself an unlikely movie that began as a gag. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” which will be released Nov. “I guess it’s just sheer tenacity because I should have gone away decades ago.” The New York Times has called Yankovic “a completely ridiculous national treasure.” That ranks him among the likes of Madonna and Michael Jackson, who have, of course, each received the Weird Al treatment ("Like a Surgeon," “Eat It”). He's one of only five music acts to have a Top 40 hit in each of the last four decades. Yankovic long ago outlasted many of the musicians he's parodied. Some, including Radcliffe, would quibble with that.
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