But that doesn’t mean more is more when it came to his performance.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Both of you truly commit to these roles.
Was it freeing to go totally off the rails?
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EVAN RACHEL WOOD:Yes.
Eric directed me in one scene to be Madonna on a lot of cocaine.
[Laughs] You would play the real person and then you would heighten it in this crazy way.
Daniel Radcliffe is playing ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.'.Aaron Epstein/ROKU; Ron Galella Collection/Getty
DANIEL RADCLIFFE:I can’t remember if our first day was the mansion scene?
WOOD:That was literally the first scene we shot [together].
She’s not bothered by how quick it was moving, how it was just a few takes.
You just really got the tone and pace of the film, and it was very exciting.
Evan, you’ve said that you played Madonna like a sociopath.
It has to be a little bit ridiculous.
She has to slowly start flying off the tracks in the end.
Daniel, if Evan was Madonna on cocaine, what were you?
RADCLIFFE:I don’t know what the drug of choice I was filtering for Weird Al was.
WOOD:Coffee and cigarettes!
Daniel, your girlfriend [actress Erin Darke] is a big Weird Al fan.
What was her reaction to your portrayal?
Erin’s seen the movie but I’ll be interested in what Ian thinks.
I really hope he likes it.
You’re also shirtless for a lot of the movie.
What did you do to prep?
I’m like the cliche of the person who has stopped drinking and transferred that energy to something else.
My parents are, like, insaneCrossFittersin their sixties so there’s an obsessive part of me.
And I was randomly more half-naked as Weird Al than any other character I’ve ever played.
Did you do CrossFit?
RADCLIFFE:I don’t do CrossFit, no.
My parents are in their sixties and they’re fitter than me and it’s mental.
My mom can dohandstand press upsand she’s, like, 60.
In the closing credits song, Weird Al himself sings about being Oscar-eligible.
What do you think: Weird Al Yankovic, potential Oscar winner?
WOOD:We’re seriously campaigning.
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