Weird Al gave Daniel Radcliffe accordion lessons

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Weird Al advised Daniel Radcliffe how to play the accordion for the Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

The 33-year-old actor stars as the parody musician in the new biopic and was critiqued most by Al on his technique with the musical instrument, even though there was a lot of โ€œfreedomโ€ in the fact that he is not doing a solid impersonation.

He said: โ€œI think definitely a lot of license and freedom was given by the fact that itโ€™s not just a straight Al biopic and impersonation. That, I think, gave me a lot of freedom to be like, okay, this is a version of this person. And Iโ€™m also really lucky that Alโ€™s nice! And that he wasnโ€™t sitting on set like a hawk being like, โ€˜Ah, you did that wrong.โ€™ Heโ€™s very, very generous. Most of the notes that I got from him were musical, and particularly about the accordion. He was like, โ€˜Can you be a bit more expansive in how youโ€™re pumping it? Because youโ€™re a bit cautious with that,โ€™ and heโ€™s very expressive with it. .โ€

The โ€˜Harry Potterโ€™ star went on to explain that the โ€˜White and Nerdyโ€™ hitmaker โ€“ whose real name is Alfred Matthew Yankovic

โ€“ was โ€œconcernedโ€ that he would make him come across โ€œshyโ€ on screen but found a sense of โ€œapprovalโ€ when he saw he had made the comedy songwriter laugh.

but He told Collider: โ€œSo, I think he was a bit concerned that I was gonna make him look like a shy accordionist. So yeah, there was that, but generally speaking, it was intimidating but also when you would see him laugh at something, youโ€™d be like, โ€˜Okay, great! I can go home.โ€™ Itโ€™s a very good seal of approval.โ€


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