Article 5YVA7 Daniel Radcliffe goes full sex symbol in first Weird Al biopic teaser

Daniel Radcliffe goes full sex symbol in first Weird Al biopic teaser

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Screen_Shot_2022_05_03_at_3.59.59_PM.0.p Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al. | Roku

People might not have known what to expect when Roku first announced that it'd tapped Daniel Radcliffe to portray Weird Al Yankovic in its upcoming biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. But following the streamer's inaugural upfront presentation this week and a new Weird trailer, there's little question about what sort of energy director Eric Appel's going for.

At one point in Yankovic's 1989 feature UHF, Yankovic plays a parody of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky character due to Stallone himself backing out of a planned cameo. In order to approximate Stallone's physique for the film, Yankovic donned an oiled-up muscle suit that didn't need to look anywhere near as convincing as it did. Though Weird's trailer doesn't mention UHF or Stallone...

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