“When Nevermind shot up to Number One on Billboard, of course I thought otherwise. “I honestly didn't think the song would ever be ‘mainstream’ enough to merit my doing a parody of it,” he told Esquire. He was a Nirvana fan before most, and was delighted when they broke through and became big enough to make fun of. His being in the video came about because of a decision that they should get someone famous in the video, and someone on the shoot having Dick Van Patten’s number for some reason. Dick also founded pet food company Natural Balance. That is the late Dick Van Patten, as seen in Spaceballs and Soylent Green, and long-running U.S. Al later brought him back for another video, You Don’t Love Me Anymore, a parody of Extreme’s More Than Words clip. I believe he was a real janitor,” said Jay. “I don’t know that he even knew a thing about Nirvana. This janitor, Tony De La Rosa, is the same guy as in Nirvana’s original. Kurt had complained about the cheerleaders used on the Smells Like Teen Spirit shoot, saying they were too slim and pretty. That one particular cheerleader isn’t in the original video either. That is Al’s longtime drummer John ‘Bermuda’ Schwartz doing his best Dave Grohl impression. The drummer wearing a shirt labelled ‘DRUMMER’ and not being Dave Grohl is pretty much the first sign that this isn’t the real deal. The vast majority of the fans in the bleachers were from the original Nirvana video.” But from a karmic standpoint, it was pretty heavy to be in the exact same place where they shot theirs. The soundstage, in essence, is four bare walls, so you could be in any soundstage and not know it was the one. We were able to track down and book the same soundstage. Director Jay Levey – Al’s longtime manager, who also directed another dozen or so of his videos and his cult movie UHF – set out to ape the original as closely as possible. Watch Radcliffe’s appearance on Fallon above.As the video begins, you’d be hard-pressed to know it wasn’t the original. And for those curious, you can see a live performance of Tom Lehrer’s version of “The Elements” here. If you want to see just how strange and hilariously awkward Radcliffe’s performance of “The Elements” was, you can check it out below. And Weird Al hasn’t been shy about posting behind the scenes shots from the movie, including the first look at Radcliffe donning the Hawaiian shirt and even Evan Rachel Wood playing Madonna. “WEIRD” is being co-produced by Funny or Die and was co-written by Yankovich along with Eric Appel, who is also directing. “He gave me his own accordion to practice on for the month, and on day 2 of that, I broke one of his straps.” It’s a fully insane movie, and it’s one of the most fun things I’ve ever done,” he said. “I’m rarely excited to see the stuff that I’m in, I’m very excited to see that. The film will focus on the prolific career of the Grammy-winning musician and pop cultural comedy icon, and Radcliffe additionally said that he can die happy now knowing that he got to take accordion lessons from the legend himself. Radcliffe’s film is called “WEIRD: The Weird Al Yankovic Story,” which already completed filming and Radcliffe said he hopes comes out later this year, where it will be release for free on The Roku Channel. Daniel Radcliffe Is Not Interested in Playing Harry Potter Again for ‘Cursed Child’ Movie
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