Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood Talk Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Biopic

With director Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story streaming for free on Roku starting November 4, I recently got to speak with Daniel Radcliffe (Yankovic) and Evan Rachel Wood (Madonna) about making the extremely funny biopic. As you might expect from a script by Yankovic and Appel, the film takes Yankovic’s real life and uses it to parody the biopic genre with fantastic results. I laughed out loud so many times watching Weird and cannot recommend the film enough. Weird also stars Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey, Julianne Nicholson as Yankovic’s mother, Toby Huss as Yankovic’s father, Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento, Spencer Treat Clark, Dot-Marie Jones, Gordon Tarpley, Arturo Castro, James Preston Rogers, along with many other surprise appearances. During the interview, Radcliffe and Wood talked about their reaction reading the Weird script for the first time and seeing what Appel was going for, what it was like filming the movie in just eighteen days, their reaction to the film winni