Entertainment News | 'Breaking Bad' Actor Aaron Paul Reveals COVID-19 Forced Him to Cancel 'Weird Al Yankovic' Biopic
Get latest articles and stories on Entertainment at LatestLY. Hollywood actor Aaron Paul of 'Breaking Bad' fame was supposed to make a cameo in Eric Appel's 'Weird Al Yankovic' biopic, but had to drop out at the last second.
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): Hollywood actor Aaron Paul of 'Breaking Bad' fame was supposed to make a cameo in Eric Appel's 'Weird Al Yankovic' biopic, but had to drop out at the last second.
Paul had played Yankovic in a sketch directed by Eric Appel called 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' in 2010. It also starred Olivia Wilde and Patton Oswalt.
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The new upcoming biopic will be directed and co-written by Appel. As per Deadline, in a recent interview, Paul spoke about the fact that Daniel Radcliffe is now leading the film.
"It's so great. I loved doing that. I love Al [Yankovic], I love Eric Appel, who wrote the skit for Funny Or Die and directed it. And he wrote the film with Al, and he's directing the feature as well. I read that script years ago and it was just so over the top beautiful." he said.
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Paul added, "It was just when they were kind of poking around seeing if they could get this thing made, and I was really excited to see it finally kind of come together, and obviously Daniel [Radcliffe] is amazing. And so I think he's absolutely going to crush it."
Paul was asked to make a small cameo in the new film but tested positive for COVID-19 on the day he was supposed to show up to set.
"I go, 'Oh, no!' So I couldn't do it, and then I was just out for like 10 solid days. I have never felt more sick in my life. And so we couldn't do the cameo, which I just absolutely was crushed about," Paul said.
As per Deadline, the production on 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' commenced earlier this month in Los Angeles. (ANI)
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