Evan Rachel Wood previews her mean Madonna impression ahead of the “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is set to premiere on Roku this fall
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Madonna bootcamp may be over, but (presumably) Julia Garner’s road to being the best onscreen Madonna now has an Evan Rachel Wood-shaped barrier.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Wood demonstrated the Madonna impression she perfected ahead of playing the star in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Roku’s new biopic on the parody songwriter. And by our lucky star, she sounds pretty damn good.
The Westworld star first offers up a brief vocal impression of the ‘80s icon, but proves to be more than up to the challenge when Fallon urges her to perform
“Material Girl” in her Madonna voice. From the nasally tenor to the over-enunciation, Wood give a masterclass in how she says Madonna used to “disarm” interviewers.
When Fallon asks Wood her initial reaction to nabbing the role, the actor shares she could barely believe it was real. “Honestly, like I thought I was gonna take a break the rest of the year, and then I got an email and the first thing I read is ‘You’ve been offered the role of Madonna,’ and I just burst out laughing like…. you just spit your drink out when you read that,” she says. “Like, you’re not expecting that as a Tuesday.”
Wood also says that she felt much more comfortable playing Madonna as a supporting role in a comedy, calling the prospect of starring as the singer in a biopic “way too much pressure.”
In Weird, Wood acts opposite Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as the titular, curly-headed performer. The first trailer for the film teases the first notes of “Like a Surgeon,” before revealing Radcliffe’s Yankovic with his accordion ready to perform for a boisterous crowd.
Although only Madonna’s parody song makes it into the teaser, Fallon also shares a still photo of Wood-as-Madonna, where the actor is decked out in a tutu, lace gloves, cross earrings… the “Like a Prayer” era special. Color us delightfully disarmed.
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This makes me feel like a sturgeon.
Pun threads are always fishy…
and yet, here we are up to the gills in it
No need to egg him on
Let’s keep going, just for the halibut.
A roe joke? Too soon.
Well, you know, girls just want to have lunch!
“Like, you’re not expecting that as a Tuesday.”
That’s a picture of Evan Rachel Wood?
1. Her singing impression is great, right down to the mouth shape 2. That’s 100% Borderline-era Madonna (check out the background), not Like a Prayer Madonna
I feel like they meant “Like a Virgin” and not “Like a Prayer”, which: still wrong. Anyway, “Borderline” still slaps.
Yeah, Weird Al never did a parody of “Like a Prayer”. I mean, what could he have done with it? “Like a Mayor”? “Like a Square”? It just doesn’t work as well as the virgin/surgeon change.
The Madonna and Alanis are good, the Janis, not so much.
She’d need to smoke a lot of cigarettes to be able to nail a Joplin impression. But the other two were incredible.
Hold on a minute – a ‘’mean’’ Madonna impression?That’s exactly as she’s always been – now does Evan Rachel Wood do way overrated as Madge is?
Man, Jimmy Fallon just keeps getting more needy and annoying.ERW was a delight, but he makes it hard to enjoy her talents with the way he interjects himself.
At least he’s not rubbing Trump’s hairpiece anymore
Lol the elections aren’t til 2024…he’ll be licking DeSantis’ tacky shoes soon enough.Fallon will help install Darth Satan Leopold Hitler if it meant he got paid in money and attention.
I’m sure that was the reason he won in 2016. Not that the Clinton campaign didn’t even bother campaigning in a number of states she falsely assumed were obvious wins for her or anything like that.
damn, thats so funny and impressive. i wonder what her impression of an FBI agent looks like. wait…
okok this was all the marketing I needed to see the Madonna film, pumped.
Is Madonna still English? I checked out years ago.