On My Screen: Daniel Radcliffe On ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’, His Directing Dreams, The Most Fun He’s Had On Set & What Makes Him Cry
deadline.comIn Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Daniel Radcliffe steps into a surrealist, fictionalized take on the rise to fame of the quirky accordion player and singer. “Being British, I think the first time I ever heard him referenced was in The Simpsons,” Radcliffe says.
Featuring a cast of cameos so unexpected and rich that even the Harry Potter star was constantly taken aback, the film led him to attempt the accordion for real, in this latest of a series of roles in which he has leaned into his comedic and musical chops.
He recalls the films that make him cry and his early life on set, and quietly admits to a penchant for The Bachelor franchise. My First Film Lesson A lot of the crew of the first Potter film had come from a film with a very notoriously hard to work with lead actor.
And then we also had a very legendary assistant director from the British film industry called Michael Stevenson who had worked with and knew Michael Caine really well.
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