Danny McBride: `Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life`
(The Guardian Culture News)

He was plucked from obscurity by Will Ferrell and soon found himself sharing scenes with Tom Cruise and hotels with Steve Coogan. Now, TV´s funniest egotist is back - and taking on televangelists Danny McBride has been a lot of arrogant men over the years. He´s napalmed jungles for fun. He´s pronounced himself the world´s greatest baseball player - despite a paunch like a department-store Santa. He has made deluded braggadocio into an artform and recently, he achieved its holiest of holy grails.`Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life,` he laughs. `That was a pretty stunning phone call to get. I don´t know why he wanted me to do it. Maybe that sense of ego I´m able to portray? I have no clue.` Continue reading...