Daniel Radcliffe will play ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in biopic
nypost.comtold The Post in 2014. “I thought I’d have to grow up and be an adult. That hasn’t happened yet.”Radcliffe has made increasingly zany choices post-Potter, so this role is in line with them.
He’s played a farting corpse (“Swiss Army Man”), Frankenstein’s hunchback henchman (“Victor Frankenstein”), a dog walker (“Trainwreck”), and a neurotic angel (“Miracle Workers”).
Next up, he’s playing an eccentric evil billionaire in the Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum rom com “The Lost City.” In the past, Radcliff has said his early success with “Harry Potter” has given him the freedom to explore roles that he connects with — regardless of the paycheck. “A lot of what I watch and what I grew up watching was comedy,” he told The Post in 2019. “I’ve done comedy onstage, so some people have seen me do it.
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