Alex Bailey TM & © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationThe new Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, featuring Mr. Robot star Rami Malek as the band’s late frontman Freddie Mercury, opens in U.S. theaters on November 2. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Malek reveals that he had a unique souvenir created from a prop he used for the film — a set of fake teeth he wore to mimic Mercury’s overbite.
“Well, I had the teeth cast in gold,” he tells the magazine. “It is the most ostentatious thing I have probably ever done, and, in the spirit of Freddie, being as outlandish as I could, I said, ‘What would be more him than casting these in gold?'”
Malek says that in order to prepare for the film, he convinced the producers to send him to London, where he took singing and piano lessons and also employed the services of a movement coach and a dialect coach.
The actor says he would watch videos of Mercury for four hours a day to study his mannerisms.
“We would just sit there and watch him in an interview, and see when he moves in and out, and blinks, and covers his teeth,” he notes.
Meanwhile, a new video has premiered online featuring a behind-the-scenes look at a recent promotion that gave Queen fans the chance to get their voices incorporated into the Bohemian Rhapsody movie. A website called PutMeinBohemian.com was launched recently where fans could submit audio clips of them singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” and, as the video shows, those submissions were mixed into a scene where Queen is performing the classic tune at the famous Live Aid concert at London’s Wembley Stadium.
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