This is Daniel Radcliffe in the biopic of “Weird” Al Yankovic

If something has Daniel Radcliffeand even his staunchest detractors will agree on this, that is his constant effort to detach himself from the image of a magical child that he has carried behind him since the premiere of the first ‘Harry Potter’. Radcliffe has gone to extremes to get rid of his broom. So there are no more movies about magicians in his career, but there are movies like ‘Guns Akimbo’ (which was a hit in Sitges), frowning thrillers in the style of ‘Imperium’ or necrophiliac comedies like the marvelous ‘Swiss Army Man’ ( another triumph at the Catalan Fantastic Film Festival).

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In January, Radcliffe was confirmed as the name that was going to give life to the former star of YouTube parodies, ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic, in his biopic ‘WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story’ (the weird, “rare”, capitalized like this). And yes, indeed, Daniel Radcliffe looks weird in the first image collected by the Backgrid news agency. A paparazzi today has detected the actor leaving his caravan, crooked smile and drink in hand, with which he will be one of the looks of the character in the movie. What we will look at, from the outset, is curly and bushy hair: according to what fans commented on after the image was spread, belongs to the first stage of the singer.

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Then there is the mustache (and what a mustache, you will say) and the look of having slept a few hours that comes off from his profuse dark circles. Humorist, as well as content creator, with a camouflage print shirt and checkered vans, the portrait of Al Yankovic is faithful. The one who is unrecognizable is Radcliffe. Yankovic himself said, behind the project: “I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe is playing me in the film. I have no doubt that this is the role that future generations will remember him for.” Eric Apple directs, co-writes and executive produces the biopic.

According to its real protagonist, the reasons for the existence of this film, which nobody asked for (another biopic about iconic musicians), are purely vocational: “When my last movie, ‘UHF,’ came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major movie every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say that we arrived on time.” At the very least, and as eccentric as his figure may be, “Weird” Al Yankovic is known to be part of the basic popular imagination of every American who lived through the heydays of MTV ( today, authentic History of the Music Video). His parodies of hits of the time they took on autonomous life and his fame soon stopped feeding on references to be iconic on its own merits.

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