- Weird Al Yankovic’s hilarious biopic called ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ tells the communicative of the creator uncovering fame with his parody songs successful the 80s
- The trailer shows galore scenes of Weird Al and Madonna together, including 1 wherever they extremity up making out
- Weird Al revealed the information astir his narration with the Material Girl during the movie’s promotional tour
The trailer for the caller movie Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has fans wondering what precisely went down betwixt stars Weird Al Yankovic and Madonna. While the movie explores the Hollywood emergence of the California autochthonal (real sanction Alfred Matthew Yankovic) with his parodies of fashionable songs, it besides spends rather a batch of clip with Al, played with large gusto by Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe, and his narration with the Material Girl, who is played with the aforesaid level of gusto by Evan Rachel Wood. The characters adjacent hook up successful 1 scene!
Despite galore different large stars playing large parts successful Weird Al’s beingness passim the movie — Rainn Wilson arsenic Dr. Demento, Jack Black arsenic Wolfman Jack, Quinta Brunson arsenic Oprah Winfrey, Conan O’Brien arsenic Andy Warhol and Lin-Manuel Miranda arsenic Al’s doc — fans look to beryllium focusing connected Al and Madonna, and searching for the truth, arsenic galore aspects of the biopic are fantastical for comedy’s involvement (see wherever Weird Al encountering infamous Colombian cause lord Pablo Escobar). Let’s instrumentality a heavy dive to find retired everything to cognize astir Weird Al and Madonna’s relationship, below!
Madonna wanted a ‘Yankovic bump’ successful the film
The movie addresses the “Yankovic bump,” which is simply a word utilized successful the euphony manufacture to picture the improvement of a impermanent summation successful an artist’s grounds income aft Weird Al parodies the archetypal song.
In the film, Weird Al paints Madonna arsenic coming connected to him successful pursuit of the “bump.” During his sojourn to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon connected Nov. 1, Weird Al said, “Madonna benignant of becomes the ‘villain’ successful the movie. She does everything she tin to calculatedly get maine to bash a parody of her caller azygous truthful she tin get that Yankovic Bump.”
Weird Al tweeted astir the sexy Madonna country aft trailer dropped
It amuses maine to nary extremity that this is presently the #3 Google hunt nether my name. pic.twitter.com/oBp8Ii6AST
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) September 3, 2022
After the trailer dropped for the biopic, followers took to societal media to effort and decipher if Weird Al and Madonna were each blistery and dense backmost successful the day. The “Eat It” vocalist caught upwind of it and decided to articulation successful the amusive connected his Twitter, writing, “It amuses maine to nary extremity that this is presently the #3 Google hunt nether my name.” Attached to the station were screenshots of the search, including “weird al and madonna.”
He teased ‘nuggets of truth’ astir Madonna narration initially
When Weird Al made an quality connected The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon connected Nov. 1 and the taxable of his and Madonna’s narration was broached, helium began his reply by saying coyly, “Well, determination are a fewer small nuggets of information sprinkled passim the biopic.”
Weird Al yet spilled the tea
Although the Desperately Seeking Susan vet has yet to publically measurement successful connected the chatter, Weird Al appeared to unopen down immoderate rumors of a fling during his promotional circuit for the film, aft his archetypal tease.
“It’s evident that there’s thing going connected with maine and Madonna successful the trailer,” Weird Al shared connected The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. “So everyone’s like, ‘Did that truly happen? Did Weird Al and Madonna person a thing?'”
He continued, “Our narration is platonic. The lone clip I really met her was successful 1985. I talked to her for possibly similar 45 seconds backstage. So that’s the grade of the relationship.”
Despite that, Weird Al confirmed, with a laugh, that “[Madonna] is simply a immense portion of the movie!”