Daniel Radcliffe Reflects on Learning the Accordion for Weird Al Movie

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Daniel Radcliffe Reflects on Learning the Accordion for Weird Al Movie

During an interview with ComingSoon, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story star Daniel Radcliffe discussed the difficulties that come with learning how to play the accordion for the biopic parody.

When asked about how he went about learning how to play the accordion, Radcliffe described the process.

“It was really hard, but it was great,” Radcliffe explained. “I’m lucky enough to have a friend who is self-taught on the accordion and has like three spares lying around, so he just gave me one to have for a long time. It’s really difficult, but I learned as much as I needed to play those bits of those songs. There was one moment where I had learned one song on the right hand, and Al came up to me as we were doing it for the first time, [and] was like, ‘that’s all on the left hand,’ where I almost lost my mind for a second. Other than that, it was great. And Evan got to listen to me practice!”

“Yes, we shared a trailer, so I got to hear the accordion practice all day,” co-star Evan Rachel Wood added jokingly.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is now streaming on The Roku Channel.