“They told me he was the peacemaker,” he says. He also spoke to Brian May and Roger Taylor in great detail about their bandmate. To prep for the role, Malek got his hands on as many Queen books, documentaries and interview clips as he possibly could. It felt like something that could go away in a heartbeat.” I felt massive excitement … was followed by the extreme, daunting weight of the thing.
“But when I spoke to Graham I got the sense this could actually be real. “I thought someone was playing a joke on me,” he says. That sort of enthusiasm was completely shocking to Malek. “He goes, ‘We see how the band carries on from strength to strength.’ “I said, ‘Listen, not one person is going to see a movie where the lead character dies from AIDS – and then you see how the band carries on.'” (May emphatically denied Cohen’s version of events at the time.) “I go, ‘What happens in the second half of the movie?'” the actor said. Talks between the two camps broke down very early in the process, however in 2016, the Borat star gave his side of the story to Howard Stern, claiming that a member of the band said that Mercury would die halfway through the movie. The saga begins nearly a decade ago, when guitarist Brian May began mentioning a potential Queen movie that would feature Sacha Baron Cohen playing Freddie Mercury. “By hook or by crook I was determined to make this movie.”
“It was frustrating,” says producer Graham King. What they didn’t see was the long, torturous journey this movie took before filming wrapped – which included casting dilemmas that went extremely public, the near impossible task of cramming the entire saga of a legendary rock band into a two-hour movie and the departure of director Bryan Singer near the end of the production. Robot star Rami Malek’s stunning transformation into Freddie Mercury. When the teaser trailer for the upcoming Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody hit the Internet in May, the entire world finally got to see Mr.
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