Daniel Radcliffe Explains Why “Bizarre Al” Yankovic Selected Him for Biopic

Earlier than the saga begins, Daniel Radcliffe is revealing how he bought chosen for the function. 

The Harry Potter star has dropped the wand and picked up the accordion to star as “Weird Al” Yankovic in Roku Channel’s upcoming biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. 

Yankovic selected the 32-year-old actor himself to star because the lead. “After I talked to Al for the primary time,” Radcliffe not too long ago stated on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, “I used to be like, ‘I am immensely flattered by the concept you’ll choose me to play you, however like, why me?'”

Seems it was all because of a TV look in November 2010, when Radcliffe sang Tom Lehrer‘s “The Parts,” on The Graham Norton Present.

“I sang ‘The Parts’ subsequent to Colin Farrell and a really bemused Rihanna,” he continued, “who I feel was like, ‘Who is that this child and why is he singing the entire components?’ And I suppose Al noticed that and was like, ‘This man perhaps will get it.’ And so [he] picked me.”