Daniel Radcliffe Reveals His ‘Ultimate Goal’ In Taking On Roles Like Weird Al (Exclusive)

Daniel Radcliffe is surviving his champion life. The Harry Potter alum stars as “Weird Al” Yankovic successful the caller chaotic and wacky biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Daniel astatine the movie’s New York City premiere astir what helium finds inspiring astir Weird Al.

Daniel Radcliffe astatine the ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ premiere successful New York City. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)

“I deliberation 1 of the reasons I was attracted to the movie was that adjacent though you perfectly bash not person to instrumentality a connection distant from this film, determination is thing precise earnest and saccharine successful the connection astatine the extremity of beryllium arsenic weird arsenic you privation to be,” Daniel said. “You’re lone going to find existent happiness if you judge who you are. I emotion conscionable the ethos of being weird and arrogant of it. I similar to deliberation that I’ve ever benignant of carried a small spot of that. But definitely, it’s hard not to beryllium inspired by that facet of Al erstwhile you spot what leaning into his “weirdness” has done for him. He’s had an unthinkable 40-year vocation and changed millions of lives.”

To play a fictionalized mentation of Weird Al, Daniel inactive had to larn however to play the accordion. For Daniel, that was “pretty much” the toughest portion of the transformation.

“It’s an incredibly hard instrument,” Daniel admitted. “It’s not 1 I americium people talented at. It requires much coordination than I’m bully at, but it was truly fun. I deliberation I would person felt similar I wasn’t adjacent attempting to bash my occupation if I got formed arsenic Weird Al and didn’t astatine slightest effort to fig retired however the accordion works. So yeah, I volition transportation it on, but like, I’m not practicing arsenic overmuch arsenic I utilized to.”

Daniel Radcliffe arsenic Weird Al. (Roku Channel)

After a decennary arsenic Harry Potter, Daniel has since carved retired a unsocial post-Potter vocation for himself. From indie films similar Swiss Army Man to mainstream comedies like The Lost City, Daniel has recovered a spot successful the satellite of comedy.

“Comedy is precise often the intersection of the ridiculous and silly and anserine and the incredibly precise and well-worked retired and smart. I emotion moving successful that benignant of space, and I similar getting to bash things wherever the eventual extremity is conscionable to marque idiosyncratic blessed and marque them laugh. That’s a truly bully mode to marque a film,” Daniel said. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story volition beryllium disposable connected the Roku Channel connected November 4.