'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' Team on Accordion Lessons, Madonna and Favorite Weird Al Songs | TIFF 2022 - video Dailymotion

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Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood and writer/director Eric Appel discuss their film ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ at TIFF 2022.

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00:00Weird The Al Yankovic Story is a very serious biopic that takes itself very serious.

00:09That's all you need to know.

00:30Dude, I've got chills.

00:34Are we calling it biopic or biopic?

00:36I don't know. I've been wondering this. Does everyone else have this problem internally?

00:40I've been mumbling it every interview I do for weeks and just changing it.

00:45So there's not a proper way. It's just both.

00:47Yeah, biopic sounds like a medical thing.

00:49It does. Yeah. I say biopic. And if that's wrong, I can just be like, I'm Southern.

00:54It's not even just musical biopics. It's sort of encapsulates fictional biopics.

01:00Everything from, you know, Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Doors to Forrest Gump and Boogie Nights.

01:07It's like any story where a character is like mythologized.

01:13It was movies like Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody coming out that kind of made Al go like,

01:18Oh, you can sort of just change stuff and make stuff up again.

01:23Yeah, these movies play so fast and loose with the facts.

01:26We were like, let's just throw facts out the window completely.

01:30Not that I wish it was real because I wouldn't wish it to have happened to a person.

01:34But Toby beating the accordion salesman like half to death in the opening scene, in the first scene.

01:43That's one of my favorite moments in the film and it just goes on for so long.

01:48I thought you were going to say Dr. Demento giving Weird Al a bunch of acid.

01:52I kind of wanted him to actually hallucinate all of those things.

01:58I have met Madonna a couple of times and we've been friendly.

02:02And so I took some solace in that and that I think she likes me.

02:07But yeah, I don't know what she thinks about this movie.

02:11But I watched her interviews religiously like throughout filming and beforehand from the early 80s just to study as well as I could.

02:20How does a person know whether Madonna likes them? Like what are the cues?

02:24You're alive. You're alive.

02:26I can take to my grade the fact that I've had accordion lessons with Weird Al. Like that's a real life moment there.

02:36It's kind of a nightmarish instrument in some ways. Like it's insane, but it was very, very fun to learn.

02:42And Evan had to also listen to me next door.

02:46We shared a trailer.

02:47We shared a trailer.

02:48So while I was practicing.

02:50I got to hear the accordion all day.

02:51Yeah.

02:52It was great.

02:53What a pleasure.

02:54It was. Like you sounded like it was bad.

02:55The polka beat that he made for Beat on the Brat was really fun to play.

02:59And I love Rocky Road because it's like, that feels more like I'm playing a full song than anything else I can play.

03:05My favorite Weird Al song, it's called The White Stuff.

03:08It was a New Kids on the Block parody about Oreo cookies.

03:13And when I was in sixth grade, I was all about it.

03:17Yoda was always the one that I loved. Probably more than the original actually.

03:23I love Jurassic Park because it's like, I love the original MacArthur Park and it's like an amazing parody of that.

03:28And also like a phenomenal retelling of the movie Jurassic Park as well.

03:32So it's one of those things. It's like the perfect out thing.

03:35And it's like a parody of the thing, but also a perfect version of the thing.

03:40Yes.

03:41Yeah.

03:42It is a true story and the most important film anyone will see this year.

03:46The greatest film of all time.

03:48Perfect.

'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' Team on Accordion Lessons, Madonna and Favorite Weird Al Songs | TIFF 2022

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