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      Lesson to other actors: if you don’t want to be typecast, pick the wildest, most batshit crazy role you can find, and then do that a few more times.

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        Just don’t go Adrian Brody levels of batshit crazy. The SNL rasta bit was a step too far.

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        If you like that, check out Swiss Army Man. It’s by the same directors of Everything, Everywhere All At Once, and it’s fantastic.

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      Or that Snake Oil bit in Miracle Workers. I don’t know if I’ll ever hear the Six White Horses bit normally again

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    I love how he’s just been going ‘fuckit, got my money’ and doing the weirdest shit possible to get his joy back. Horns was great

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        It only initially released on Roku’s streaming service, but I think it’s available elsewhere now.

        It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

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            Weird Al takes secular pop songs and makes them into wholesome parodies, for his movie he took his wholesome life and made it into a secular drama parody. Loved it and Daniel Radcliffe was perfectly cast.

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          yea and there’s something about the way the film does it … unless you know going in you could almost be fooled into thinking it’s a serious and accurate biopic (at least for much of the film) … which was really fun to watch … because then there’d be some line or event which is clearly too ridiculous and it all lands but still the mostly serious tone is almost the punch line.

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          It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

          Probably the best stance when dealing with someone like Weird Al

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          I thought that made it kinda pointless. I wanted to see Al’s actual story, and instead I got some weird 2 hour long SNL skit. There were some pretty good parts, like Another One Rides the Bus at the Hollywood party, but the shit with Pablo Escobar was just a waste of screentime IMO.

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    Swiss army man, guns akimbo are both amazing films. Never watched harry potter though

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      Swiss army man was brilliant. My favorite of his performances as an adult

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        Check him out in Miracle Workers. Preferably only season 1 & 2, the rest of them are very odd and not so good. The most recent season (the meh one) he does have a drag scene, though.

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      Imperium was very interesting. He plays an undercover fed in a US white supremacists/neo nazi group. Quite the change of pace.

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    Ive definitely been enjoying his post-Potter work. When I see his name on a new movie it goes on my watch list pretty quick.

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    I haven’t gotten to see season 4 yet, but he’s been great in Miracle Workers.

    It’s a seasonal anthology comedy. So each season follows a storyline, and then the next season is the same cast, but with completely unrelated characters, setting and story.

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      Seasons 1 & 2 were amazing, after that it became too absurd and not very funny anymore.

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    He’s a brilliant actor, and he picks his roles well. I haven’t seen anything he’s been in that I didn’t like. And I’ve loved his performance in all of it. The guy is setting himself up to be life of the greats out acting history eventually.