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- I like scrappy.
- The faster is the....
- Welcome back.
We're here with the fantastic Daniel Radcliffe.
I'm having such a bucket list moment in life with you.
You know, my daughter came up with just a scroll
of excuses to tell her school today to get here.
- And did she, did they work?
- I was like, your school called me and said
you're not allowed to miss any more days
and we're in our November and you started in September,
so we're in trouble.
- Okay. Fair enough.
Well, I'm sorry, what's your daughter's name?
- Her, one is Olive, one is Frankie.
- Hello, Olive and Frankie.
- Oh my god.
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You have no idea the props.
- Okay, great.
That's hilarious, but great.
- Thank you for making me the cool parent just now.
It means so much to me.
Here's your water. Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Okay, so we started as kids.
- Right, yes.
- You know, and like
I was reading about you
and what I was picking up was like a credo
and an ethics and sort of a moral compass for you.
It started to come out in the form of like
if people thought you were Elijah Wood
you would say, "Oh, okay, yes,"
'cause you didn't wanna correct them.
- Well, there was, that happened a couple of times.
Well, there's, yes.
You just don't wanna ruin someone's day.
- Exactly. So I was like, oh my god.
Some people will call me Demi Moore.
- That one's weird to me though.
You don't look alike.
Me and Elijah Wood look alike.
- I think it's the names, they're similar.
- I mean, they have more in them.
- Yeah, exactly.
- I don't know.
- I'll get, you know, I loved you in "Poltergeist"
or another movie I wasn't in...
- Cool.
- And I'll just go, "Thank you."
Because I don't wanna be rude.
- Yeah, and there's like, well I've had the one time,
the first time it happened I was on a red carpet in Japan
and the guy who was offering me the photo
of a Elijah Wood was Japanese and did not speak English.
So, and I didn't speak Japanese.
- What'd you sign?
- I think I either signed a Elijah Wood
or I maybe wrote like,
"I'm not Elijah Wood, Daniel Radcliffe.
Have a good one."
- See, that's how I know...
- Yeah. (indistinct crosstalk)
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- That's how I know that we are compatible
because ironically in Tokyo when I was seven years old,
I went there for "E.T."
- Oh well, what was that like?
- Well, I was in a bathroom stall
and a piece of paper and a pen came under
and they said, "Could you sign this?"
And I thought, life's different.
- Yeah.
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Yeah.
- And did you sign it out of interest?
- Of course.
- Right? Yeah.
- Always. And I take photos in the bathroom all the time,
still to this day.
Okay. So our childhoods I think were very affected
by Weird Al and I believe Erin, your beautiful girlfriend
is like how you got into him, too?
'Cause I'm such a lifelong fan.
- Yeah, so I grew up knowing some of Al's work in England,
but not being fully indoctrinated in the way
that you just are if you grew up in America
between a certain time period.
You just know him.
And when I started dating Erin,
her and her whole family really like,
Weird Al became the soundtrack to like Christmas
and even though he's only really got two Christmas songs,
but we listened to all of it
and I kind of become obsessed with a few of the songs
and to then get the offer to play him was very surreal,
but awesome.
I mean, I think that the message,
this is not a movie that you have to go to for a message,
but there is inside the absolute deranged insanity
that this film is,
there is a very sweet core of it, which is, you know
I say in a speech near the end of the movie,
be as weird as you wanna be.
You know, you're only gonna find true happiness
when you can accept who you truly are.
I think that is something that Al really represents
for people as well.
He is both smart and bizarre
but also incredibly funny and incredibly kind.
And yeah, it all just like,
he threads the the needle between psychotically insane
and earnestly, incredibly sweet
in a way that I think few people do.
And I think that's why people love him, I think.
- And I cannot wait for this film.
- Thank you so much.
- I'm so happy you're telling his story
that it's you telling it.
We're all gonna be there. I cannot wait.
- I'm very, very honored.
- I'm very, very honored, too.
Thank you.
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- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, Daniel Radcliffe.
Catch him playing Weird Al
in "Weird the al....
Tha, tha, tha, tha... here you take it.
- Catch me playing Weird Al
in "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,"
available starting today exclusively on the Roku Channel.
We'll be right back with the headlines.
Stick around for Drew's news.
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