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Daniel Radcliffe reveals why he’s so jacked in the Weird Al biopic, and the photo doesn’t lie

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The Franchise That Shall Not Be Named will play the accordion-wielding king of parody songs in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a satirical biopic out this fall on The Roku Channel.If you’ve watched the trailers—which feature Radcliffe’s abs prominently on display—you might be saying to yourself: “Wait, I don’t remember Weird Al ever being this jacked!” (well, outside of that Rambo scene in UHF ).

And that’s because he wasn’t.The tongue-in-cheek parody movie is using Radcliffe’s fit physique to its advantage, painting Yankovic as the kind of sexy, bad-boy rock-n-roller these music biopics are usually about.

In conversation with ET Online, the actor revealed that he “was shirtless more as Al than I’ve been in anything else.” And you’ll hear no complaints from us!Related: Madonna’s “bad influence” is all over the new trailer for the Weird Al biopicHis “Buff Al” has certainly captured the attention of the internet, with folks drooling over what he’s got underneath those Hawaiian shirts.

But Radcliffe wants to set one thing straight after all this newfound thirst:“An article about the film came out saying that I got in shape for this role, which I didn’t”—oh, we know girl!

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