To Person DPA Rami Malek , in 1981, was born in Los Angeles, comes from a family of Coptic Orthodox immigrants from Egypt. Caused a stir as Pharaoh Akhmenrah in Night at the Museum movies, as the Terrorist Al-Zacar in “24” and as a young Corporal in the HBO war drama, “The Pacific”. Since 2015, he plays the Computer Hacker Elliot Alderson in the TV series “Mr. Robot,” for which he won an Emmy as best actor.
MIRROR ONLINE: Mr. Malek, in the movie (Our review of the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” read here) portray a shy, sensitive Freddie Mercury away from the famous, extravag ducks stage Persona. How exactly you found these access to his character?
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Malek : To his Songs so powerful can sing to such as he, I have investigative me in its lyrics deepens as usual, only in a screenplay. For me, it was not a normal, 125-page script for this movie, I had rather study the 300 pages, if one includes all the Lyrics. I write privately as well, and usually everything comes out straight from the things to which I in my innermost tendon. So I suspect that The key lies in his own texts. In the Song “Bohemian Rhapsody” is revealed to the whole conflict of his identity: The intimate, directly from the soul, sung with a desire to detach from ideas that someone has, or write-UPS from the outside. This has brought me to the people, Freddie Mercury, one step closer. I had him until then only as a legendary, all sublime front man of a rock band is perceived.
MIRROR ONLINE: , it Was helpful to be able to relatively unbiased to Mercury and the Queen-history approach?
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Malek: I, the Queen knew, I knew some of the Songs and the pictures. But I had no idea of the glittering glam rock Version of the seventies. It shocked me a bit to see it, if I’m honest. I felt like a sponge, soaking up all of that, I became a kind of researcher, is digging for information: Everything was interesting and helpful, every little iota: As I Video-recordings was, I started to listen to mercury Radio Interviews. His voice and moods change all the time! In a Moment, he could be the charming Gentleman ( Malek mimicking a nasal sound, British accent ): “Darling, would you bring me a cup of tea, please?”, then he made a mess of the Moderator: “What kind of an arsehole question is that!” He held many different personalities, and used that to his advantage. With him you never knew what Freddie would you just get. I wanted to try to show in the Film.
MIRROR ONLINE: What was, away from the artificial anterior teeth, the greatest difficulty to transform into Freddie Mercury?
Malek: What I wanted to achieve, and to flicks of me every time, in every single scene of the film move exactly like him, effortlessly, “in the blink of an eye,” as Freddie would say, ( the Finger ). So I needed someone who would help me, his unique body language not just to imitate, but also to understand what he wanted her to articulate. He exploded on stage formally. Everything was spontaneous, not prepared anything. If it is rehearsed, it is boring, was his Motto. And nothing about this man was boring.
MIRROR ONLINE: Who or what helped you?
Malek: I had met with the choreographers Sahabet and of course, photos, Videos, and everything else is still available, studied and researched. But ultimately, it was my movement coach Polly Bennett, which brought the breakthrough. During one of our Sessions she said to me, ‘ Why don’t you just run time, such as on cross-country skis through the space? I did not know at first what she meant. But then I understood that she wanted me to translate a Mercury-specific type of movement. Properly intimidating it was then, during the recordings for the Live-Aid concert, we had to make on the very first day of shooting. I didn’t know until then whether I would be able to special on-stage spontaneity of Freddie actually recreate.
MIRROR ONLINE: ?
Malek: But with the Band in the back, on the stage, these Songs going, I felt, then, indeed, the adrenaline, and got a feel for it, to manipulate my body in the same way, in movements, how he has done it once.
MIRROR ONLINE: The Live-productions in the Film are great, everything else seems very tame and well-behaved, as measured by the dissolute mercury’s life, not to find you?
Malek: You could make this more explicit Film, you mean, surely. I have been thinking at the beginning of the rotation a lot about how deep we are in darkness and in the abysses. But then it became clear to me: If you are staying there for too long, there is perhaps too little, what was Freddie in truth: a living man who has enjoyed life to the fullest and celebrated. We wanted the viewers to lose this beauty and its ability to get pleasure from the view. Of course, he said: “My favorite Hobby is Sex”, of course, he had countless lovers before the Film shy away. He doesn’t go terribly deep, but it is, as I don’t find it very elegant, with the right dose, to distract you from the essence of his humanity.
MIRROR ONLINE: How would you describe it?
“Bohemian Rhapsody” movie trailer:
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Malek: Freddie mercury’s story is so effective because he has stopped at some point, worrying about what people think of him. He had found his identity and refused to be in the drawers: I can be able to be who I am, who you are, and we can all sing together “We Are the Champions”, this was his revolutionary idea of inclusion. If we would have made the movie darker, exploitativer or slippery,……
MIRROR ONLINE: ……and thus an age restriction on the box-office would have risked…?
Malek: …we could have taken, especially the younger spectators the opportunity to see everything. And with that, we would have done many people a Favor, the voice as a voice – Freddie mercury – just desperately in need of.
