Bohemian Rhapsody: Rami Malek on ‘TERRIFYING’ screening of Freddie audition with Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody star Malek took part in Mark Kermode Live in 3-D at the BFI Southbank earlier this month. During the interview, the Freddie Mercury star revealed the terrifying time he had to watch his audition tape with Queen legends May and Taylor. Malek said: “I think one major moment was showing my audition to Brian May and Roger Taylor, after I thought they had seen it but they hadn’t downloaded it, at Roger Taylor’s apartment. I watched it with them and that was a most terrifying moment.”

Malek continued: “There was even a moment where I remember being thrown a question at that impromptu press conference at Abbey Road and I couldn’t remember the answer but the question was, ‘Who’s the person that you trust the most?’

“And in that moment of just being a bit terrified standing between them, I couldn’t remember had I answered Brian or Roger.

“Fortunately as Freddie, I said, ‘Mary, Mary’s the person that I trust the most.’ And that’s the love of his life.

“I remember both of them just looking at me and going, ‘Okay, alright, that’s alright.’”

He told The Wrap: “I thought, ‘I have one responsibility: to do this human being justice and to make him proud and to make Queen proud.’

“I got to spend a lot of time with Kash — I call her Kash, which is a phenomenal thing I never thought I’d be doing in my life — and just being able to talk to her and hold her hand and give her a hug and have tea with her is such a gift. 

“And to have had this experience and to feel some kinship with Freddie Mercury and to hear stories about him through his sister, it means everything to me.”