And that wasn’t just the full day, because we also shot a scene in Dr.
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“The movie was shot in 18 days, so was one day at that house.
I don’t even want any lines.’ I’m like, ‘All right, that’s great.’ He gave me some great reactions.”īut for the pool party scene - for the whole shoot, in fact - Appel did not have much time. He was like, ‘I want to come out and do something. “And he has no dialogue in the movie - that was his idea. “Akiva from The Lonely Island is Alice Cooper,” Appel mentions as one example. And there’s one scene, set at a pool party, which features a metric ton of notable comedians playing various celebrities from the world of music and beyond. “But it was so great to have such a music comedy legend like himself in this music comedy biopic.”Īgain, there are so many cameos in this movie - on his own, Appel brought in Johnny Pemberton ( 21 Jump Street, Superstore) and Jonah Ray ( Mystery Science Theater 3000) as members of a punk rock band Weird Al auditions to join. “It was incredible to have him there, and I’ve watched it with people and I’m like looking at them when he comes on screen and yeah, sometimes they don’t know it until the second time you see him,” he says. (Knowing this, you’ll understand why Oswalt is only seen in close-up during the scene.)Īnother cameo Appel was excited to secure was Michael McKean, whose long and eclectic career includes, of course, co-writing and starring in This Is Spinal Tap. “It was nice to get Patton in there with a broken foot - he was on a knee scooter, but he wanted so badly to come do anything in the movie,” Appel says. Demento for the film, but he was able to fill in as the biker character Paul would have played. Paul’s absence did lead to an interesting bit of musical chairs, cameo-wise: Due to a foot injury, Oswalt had been unable to return as Dr. And so we couldn’t do the cameo, which I just absolutely was crushed about.”) (Paul, in an interview with CinemaBlend, said that “I was just out for like 10 solid days. “He showed up for his fitting and unfortunately tested positive for COVID, and it was such a bummer,” Appel says. Unfortunately, this pandemic you might have heard something about got in the way. Appel says the cameo was inspired by Johnny Depp’s very secretive cameo in 21 Jump Street: “We were going to give him a big beard, because I wanted to make him look like a biker, and for people to say, ‘Wait a second, was that Aaron Paul?’ Or for people to see his name in the credits and have to go back and say, ‘Oh my God, that was Aaron Paul.'”
Radcliffe’s commitment to the role is absolute, but Appel hadn’t forgotten about his previous star, and there were plans in place for Aaron Paul to make a cameo in the film as a heckler at one of Weird Al’s early shows. Much like the trailer (but with some key differences), the film depicts young Al becoming a huge star, romancing Madonna (played here by Evan Rachel Wood), and falling into a life of drugs, debauchery, and violence. The path from the original trailer to a film that won a People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival involved Appel and Yankovic collaborating on a feature-length script, before attaching Daniel Radcliffe to play the famed star.
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