Speaker 1: M h. You're listening to playback a variety. I heart
Speaker 1: radio podcast. I'm your host for IDI Awards editor Chris Tapley.
Speaker 1: This week we've got the star of Bohemian Rhapsody, Romy Malick.
Speaker 1: We talked about what it took to inhabit the role
Speaker 1: of rock star Freddy Mercury, weathering on set tensions and
Speaker 1: a whole lot more. So, sit tight, this is playback.
Speaker 1: Been busy, man. I love Halloween and I didn't go
Speaker 1: out from Halloween and yesterday, and that's probably the first
Speaker 1: time in ten years. Really, Yeah, you didn't feel compelled to.
Speaker 1: I was just dressed up like Freddie again. I think
Speaker 1: there were a lot of Freddy's this year. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of Freddie, which means we're doing something right. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't either. But you know, my kid dressed up
Speaker 1: as character called super Why. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know super Why. It's on Netflix. You should get to
Speaker 1: know super Why. Something about teaching you how to read
Speaker 1: as it's a superhero. I don't know. I barely watched,
Speaker 1: but he's all about it and that was his GUSTUMEA.
Speaker 1: So maybe Freddy Marcury next year he'll be three. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It could be interesting. It's not bad putting
Speaker 1: a mustache. That's it. Thank you, Danny, Thanks Dan, Thanks
Speaker 1: thanks again, man, I appreciate it. Good you, good luck
Speaker 1: with the photos. Get you lined up here. But yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: you've been You've been busy. I've been I've been busy.
Speaker 1: I've gone around the world for the first time in
Speaker 1: three weeks, will be one around now. Let's let's just
Speaker 1: dive in. Uh we're here today with Robby mall like
Speaker 1: the star of Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury himself also obviously
Speaker 1: you know him from Mr Robot on TV, and he's
Speaker 1: been busy. I was gonna ask you if you have
Speaker 1: anything left to say at this point. I guess at
Speaker 1: this point I'm trying to come up with anecdotes that
Speaker 1: no one's ever heard. So if you ask very obscure questions,
Speaker 1: perhaps I can give you something. Crash. Yeah, where have
Speaker 1: you been? Everywhere around the world? Yeah, I've been all
Speaker 1: through Europe, all around the world. Went from uh Sydney
Speaker 1: to Singapore, landed in London and went straight into interviews
Speaker 1: there and have just found my way back to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles via a few days in New York doing pressed
Speaker 1: there as well. Well, you know what has the world
Speaker 1: tour sort of revealed to you about Freddie Mercury and
Speaker 1: his impact around the world in different places. Well, collectively,
Speaker 1: everyone has their own relationship with Queen, the music, and
Speaker 1: and the front man. He is revered by everyone from
Speaker 1: every single country that I've visited. And I think you know,
Speaker 1: when we set out to make this movie, Graham King
Speaker 1: and Dennis O'Sullivan who had the rights with with the
Speaker 1: legendary band members of Queen. Uh, they were taking it
Speaker 1: to studios and I don't know how many studios actually
Speaker 1: knew just how relevant this band is globally across generationally. Um,
Speaker 1: the impact is massive. Everyone knows Queen, and everyone knows
Speaker 1: Freddie Mercury. Now it's time with this film to bring
Speaker 1: it to a brand new generation. Why do you think
Speaker 1: that would be lost on anyone? I mean, it is
Speaker 1: such a defining Like I feel like we all know
Speaker 1: when we first heard Queen. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think people just did not really anticipate just how massive
Speaker 1: they are globally. Places like I'm going to Japan on
Speaker 1: November five. They were huge in Japan. Freddie loved Japan.
Speaker 1: He used to go over there and pick up all
Speaker 1: of uh the art that they had, all the kimonos
Speaker 1: he could find. He would come back with boxes a
Speaker 1: full of things he collected in Japan. Roger Taylor too,
Speaker 1: and they have a very heavy influence over there. South
Speaker 1: America another place they played in Rio to two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand people, the largest audience recorded to date.
Speaker 1: That's a fact you'd find out in the film. Yeah. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when did you first kind of take the queen?
Speaker 1: When when did you first hear their music? I don't
Speaker 1: know that I realized that it was it was Wayne's
Speaker 1: world that brought it to my attention. Yes, is that
Speaker 1: exactly what it was? Same? Yeah, And that's when Bohemian
Speaker 1: Rhapsody hit the charts for again again number one. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping this film doesn't. Maybe I think that will be
Speaker 1: a really cool moment if Billboard has Bohemian Rhapsody at
Speaker 1: number one. So I'm gonna put this out there and
Speaker 1: and let everybody know that that's my goal. Everybody go
Speaker 1: downloaded on iTunes. We'll also go see the movie, but
Speaker 1: downloads I can get to the song on the charts. Um,
Speaker 1: but I heard it, and uh, it was arresting to me.
Speaker 1: It was halting and haunting and at the same time
Speaker 1: uplifting and whimsical and ethereal. And as a young man,
Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, this is the power of what music
Speaker 1: can do, what what I think you know, types of
Speaker 1: art can do. And uh, it inspired me. It invigorated me,
Speaker 1: and I wanted more. And around the same time he
Speaker 1: passed away, and that was the Did you see the
Speaker 1: big Wimbley concert, the where all the bands got together,
Speaker 1: the big remembering Freddie deal? Yeah, the tribute concert. There's
Speaker 1: probably very very limited amount of things that I would
Speaker 1: not be I've seen everything. If you guys have a chance,
Speaker 1: watch George Michael do his rendition of Somebody to Love.
Speaker 1: He was a massive fan of Freddie, Mercury and Queen
Speaker 1: and he gives it his heart and soul. And if
Speaker 1: you watch, there's a documentary that takes you behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: You can see you can see David Bowie standing back
Speaker 1: and just watching George Michael and thinking, wait, am I
Speaker 1: going to have to follow this guy? That was a
Speaker 1: huge concert. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Guns and Roses did uh uh uh they did Bohemian
Speaker 1: Rhapsody and we will rock yard. I think, what did
Speaker 1: David Bowie do under pressure with Anie Lennox? That's exactly right,
Speaker 1: you can ask me an. And it took Elton John
Speaker 1: and Axel Rose to hit both sides of the notes
Speaker 1: for Bohemian Rhapsody. That's how great Freddie's range walks absolutely well. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, just to go back to that, most of
Speaker 1: the people singing that they had to alter the songs
Speaker 1: to bring them down a key, yeah, because they just
Speaker 1: couldn't go as high. And if you think about um
Speaker 1: under pressure David Bowie, they went and made that song
Speaker 1: on a whim, right. They happen to be in the
Speaker 1: same city recording different albums, and they found each other
Speaker 1: in one moment, crossing paths, and they came and they said,
Speaker 1: why don't we do a song together? And John Deacon
Speaker 1: comes in with this baseline, this iconic bassline that we
Speaker 1: know from Under Pressure now, which was also stolen by
Speaker 1: Vanilla Ice. Remember, according to Vanilla he added an extra beat,
Speaker 1: so it's not stolen, is that what he? Okay? But
Speaker 1: they left that day after that just to go get
Speaker 1: a slice of pizza. And when they came back. John
Speaker 1: Deacon didn't. He didn't remember the bassline, and that song
Speaker 1: was almost lost until Roger Taylor came in and started
Speaker 1: drumming it out, and then uh they Freddie and David
Speaker 1: didn't want to hear each other put down their their track,
Speaker 1: so they went into separate rooms. But Freddie couldn't help me.
Speaker 1: He said, I got to top him. So whatever he does,
Speaker 1: I think that's some of the highest notes you'll ever
Speaker 1: hear Freddie do in a song, and it is. It's
Speaker 1: for me, one of the most powerful queen songs, an
Speaker 1: amazing song. Is this part of the fun for you
Speaker 1: as an actor, to dig in this deep and investigate
Speaker 1: and become essentially like a journalist? Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was something I look forward to every night, whether
Speaker 1: I was on Mr. Robot or working on Papion, I
Speaker 1: would as soon as I got home, and after learning
Speaker 1: my lines for the next day of filming both projects,
Speaker 1: I would sit and watch all the archival footage and
Speaker 1: I was enamored with him and infatuated with Freddie, and
Speaker 1: then I started to fall in love with him, and
Speaker 1: I felt like a bit of a stalker because I
Speaker 1: just wanted more and more and more I was looking at, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, people's camcorded a video from a concert in
Speaker 1: Japan in the eighties, and I just felt like, Uh,
Speaker 1: if there was something out there that was recorded of
Speaker 1: this man, I wanted to see it. And then when
Speaker 1: I exhausted all the video footage, I would go to
Speaker 1: anything that was like what we were doing right now,
Speaker 1: a type of radio interview, because you could hear different
Speaker 1: sides of You could hear how he interacted with someone
Speaker 1: who was delivering him a tea or or vodka tonic,
Speaker 1: and how demure he could be, how his pitch would
Speaker 1: change when he was talking to someone he liked versus
Speaker 1: if he was ready to get out of an interview.
Speaker 1: You could hear his voice drop a few registers. He's
Speaker 1: just fascinating. And when you hear people talk about him,
Speaker 1: how he just walked into a room and that was it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the air was sucked out and you could
Speaker 1: feel exactly who this person was, and he had power
Speaker 1: and gravitas, and you just wanted to know more. Well,
Speaker 1: he's such an iconic figure. Were you more nervous than excited,
Speaker 1: more excited than nervous, were nervous at all to take
Speaker 1: on something this gargantean. Yeah, I mean how could you
Speaker 1: not be everyone everyone has heard a Queen song. I
Speaker 1: think if you haven't, you should and you have at
Speaker 1: your own relationship with this band and this in and um.
Speaker 1: You know, he struts on stage sometimes with a crown
Speaker 1: and a cape, and he might as well be a superhero, right.
Speaker 1: He's the closest we get to a Marvel character that
Speaker 1: is actually a human being. So that's how I had to, uh,
Speaker 1: just to begin to remove the weight of it is
Speaker 1: think he's human. Um, he is a figure that there's
Speaker 1: got to be a way I can connect with besides
Speaker 1: this this deity, this rock god, this monolith on stage.
Speaker 1: And so I knew I could find his humanity and
Speaker 1: that would be my way in. And I started to think,
Speaker 1: here's a guy who's struggling with his identity. He's he's
Speaker 1: a foreigner. I mean, if he if he doesn't go
Speaker 1: to this boarding school in India from where he was
Speaker 1: born in Zanzibar, if it's not a British boarding school,
Speaker 1: he ends up in London at eighteen for Rukable Sara
Speaker 1: with a very heavy good Garati slash Indian accent. You know,
Speaker 1: there are a few things that might have kept us
Speaker 1: from from realizing the Freddie Mercury we now know. And
Speaker 1: so I looked at this guy that was an immigrant,
Speaker 1: a fish out of water, trying to discover his identity,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, someone who was called Bucky as
Speaker 1: a kid and is also trying to discover his sexual
Speaker 1: identity in a time and place and with a religious
Speaker 1: family who very much stigmatized the idea of anything being
Speaker 1: other than atrasexual. I mean London in the seventies didn't
Speaker 1: didn't care too much for anyone identifying any other way.
Speaker 1: So the fact that he has all this turmoil and
Speaker 1: frustration and struggle to understand him off but knows there
Speaker 1: is a power, a voice, a a charm and charisma
Speaker 1: that he wants to share. A defiant individual wants to
Speaker 1: share the real self, his real self with the world.
Speaker 1: He gets out there on that stage and he lets
Speaker 1: it rip. And that's what I understood from, you know,
Speaker 1: being a young man who grew up in the city
Speaker 1: where and I'm staring at the four oh five right
Speaker 1: now where you know I live, grew up about you know,
Speaker 1: six miles down that way, and to think of being
Speaker 1: here talking about this film and everything that's happening with it.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow it's going to open, and I could tether myself
Speaker 1: to that in a certain way, if that makes any sense. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, with something like this, the trick is not
Speaker 1: slipping into an imitation, right, Like you really want to
Speaker 1: embody something real about the character and not just kind
Speaker 1: of mimic. Uh. I'm always curious when people play real characters,
Speaker 1: like what you discovered about the real individual that you
Speaker 1: really wanted to bake into your performance and make sure
Speaker 1: that came across. You know. There were times when I
Speaker 1: was working on his accent, which is it's very posh sometimes,
Speaker 1: but then a few things might slip out of it
Speaker 1: that are come from his mom who or his dad
Speaker 1: who have that Indian accent. And there were times before
Speaker 1: we'd even get on camera where I would work on
Speaker 1: just doing his mother's accent with my dialect coach, William Connacher,
Speaker 1: and we would then layer on this kind of posh
Speaker 1: RP British dialect and I would I would have him
Speaker 1: down sometimes and in front of the camera it wouldn't
Speaker 1: always be as good as it was off camera. And
Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's fine at a certain point because
Speaker 1: I don't want to do a perfect impersonation or imitate
Speaker 1: you know him, It would have to be me, and
Speaker 1: I would I realized it's whatever emotion was happening for
Speaker 1: me on the day was affecting how the words were
Speaker 1: coming out, and so I thought, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, that's good. That what that it's altered in
Speaker 1: a certain way. Um. Like I said, I watched all
Speaker 1: the footage, but I always wanted it to be mine
Speaker 1: as much as it was his. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: lose myself and and people will say, well, he really
Speaker 1: did lose himself, but there's a lot of me underneath there. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing I didn't want was to be choreographed. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be spontaneous in any moment, and not just
Speaker 1: on stage. But uh, whenever I walked into a room,
Speaker 1: as Freddie walks in late quite often in this film,
Speaker 1: you know I was going to make an impression. And
Speaker 1: it's probably, you know, sometimes the loudest I've ever been
Speaker 1: on camera. I usually prefer very quiet and nuanced performances,
Speaker 1: but I remember Tom Hollander at one point, the actor
Speaker 1: came up to me and are you always this loud?
Speaker 1: And I was taken aback for a second, but it's
Speaker 1: Freddie Mercury. There are moments when you have to be
Speaker 1: But it was this, It was spontane spontaneity that I
Speaker 1: always wanted, so uh, I felt it had to come
Speaker 1: from me and him. And one thing I really used
Speaker 1: as a guide more than anything was his lyrics. I
Speaker 1: would look at the songs and one day I wrote
Speaker 1: them all out because I found them so informative. It
Speaker 1: was almost like a diary who was pouring himself his
Speaker 1: heart out. And you know, there are times when he
Speaker 1: talks about this, this profound loneliness or this this desire
Speaker 1: for love. I mean he has he has songs. You
Speaker 1: can see it in Somebody to Love? Can anybody find
Speaker 1: me somebody to love? He's got another song called Lily
Speaker 1: of the Valley. I am forever searching high and low.
Speaker 1: But why does everybody tell me? No, Neptune of the
Speaker 1: seas and answer for me please? And so he has,
Speaker 1: you know, loneliness and these ethereal whimsical, uh, kind of
Speaker 1: fairytale notes of of what life should be. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got songs called Ogre Battle and March of the
Speaker 1: Black Queen. And the guy is Uh, he's a poet.
Speaker 1: I mean he could have. I feel like, if he
Speaker 1: really wanted to, he could have been a short story writer.
Speaker 1: But that's where I learned the most about him. I
Speaker 1: could ask Brian made so much. I could ask Um
Speaker 1: Roger Taylor so much. Jim Beach Miami Beach, who is
Speaker 1: now the executor of his estate. He was is the
Speaker 1: band's lawyer. I could ask Cash Uh, Freddie's sister a lot.
Speaker 1: But the diary, the songs themselves were gave me the
Speaker 1: most insight into who he was. Where when you first
Speaker 1: started to do this work, where you uh was it
Speaker 1: easy to to try to find the character or did
Speaker 1: you struggle at all? And was there a specific thing
Speaker 1: that really unlocked it for you that you came across. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. There were moments throughout where I struggled.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember one time I was working with
Speaker 1: I was working with Paul Bennett, who was the movement coach,
Speaker 1: my movement coach on this. She ended up doing the
Speaker 1: choreography for all of us at Live Aid and through
Speaker 1: the performances. And I was working on Mr Robot in
Speaker 1: New York and trying to on my weekends work solely
Speaker 1: on Freddie Mercury. So I got Fox to fly her
Speaker 1: out from London. And there were moments when I was
Speaker 1: just so exhausted from that third season and Mr robot
Speaker 1: we I remember one time I said, Paul, I'm going
Speaker 1: to just grab a snack downstairs, and I came back
Speaker 1: with thirty minutes later with an apple, and I could
Speaker 1: just tell that my mind was it had been exhausted
Speaker 1: and overtaken by too much. It was just too overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and that was wasn't just from having worked on robots,
Speaker 1: trying to encapsulate this human being that is sometimes just superhuman,
Speaker 1: and it was daunting. Yeah, there were moments where I
Speaker 1: looked at myself and I said, what have you done?
Speaker 1: What have you done? And this will be impossible, And everybody,
Speaker 1: I think, just could see that it was coming. It
Speaker 1: was gradual. It was a slow burn, but things were
Speaker 1: evolving day to day, and I just had to hang
Speaker 1: in there and know that there was still time and
Speaker 1: and I was going to put this together at some point.
Speaker 1: I just had to keep reminding myself, you can do this.
Speaker 1: This is something that you've aspired to do your whole life.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a daunting challenge, but you got into
Speaker 1: this business because you like challenges, and and he has
Speaker 1: a story to tell that I think is perfect for
Speaker 1: this generation and who is really trying to identify who
Speaker 1: they are and not be not be labeled or criticized
Speaker 1: for being exactly the the authentic people that they want
Speaker 1: to be. Yeah. I can't imagine having gone back and
Speaker 1: forth between Robot and that character and then Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's such completely different dispositions headspaces. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: just I guess that plays into the exhaustion, right, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I will say this. I mean people can
Speaker 1: say that they are extremely different people, but there is
Speaker 1: that that profound loneliness and sometimes alienation that they both have.
Speaker 1: I mean, Freddie could be in front of a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people and go home just to a hotel room.
Speaker 1: And I've heard him talk about that from going from
Speaker 1: hotel to hotel. And you see that in the movie
Speaker 1: as well. When when there's a situation with the band
Speaker 1: you broaches ais, aren't you guys tired of all of
Speaker 1: this album tour, album tour, being on on the on
Speaker 1: the road all this time, no no real sense of family,
Speaker 1: um and uh, I think they're they're elements was Elliott
Speaker 1: and Mr Robot. Now there is also one costume and
Speaker 1: Mr Robot that I get to wear and about a
Speaker 1: hundred in Bohemian Rhapsodies, so that was a very different element.
Speaker 1: The last day of shooting on Mr Robot on season three,
Speaker 1: I was in the last scene and everybody knew that.
Speaker 1: Two weeks later I was going to be on the
Speaker 1: stage performing live aid. That was on day one and
Speaker 1: Sam s Mayle, who writes, directs and created Mr. Robots
Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine. He says, all right, give
Speaker 1: me a little, give me a little Freddie before you leave.
Speaker 1: And I did a spin for the entire crew and
Speaker 1: kicked up my my legs and gave him I see later,
Speaker 1: Darling with the British dialect, and everybody laughed. There not
Speaker 1: seen that out of the Kid in the Hoodie for
Speaker 1: about three year four years. Now by the end of it,
Speaker 1: where you, uh, do you feel like you finally felt
Speaker 1: at peace with what you were doing and did you
Speaker 1: feel like it was something you could have kept doing,
Speaker 1: like where you relieved that it was contained to this
Speaker 1: movie or is it like, oh, I could do this
Speaker 1: for a mini series. I would like to because there's
Speaker 1: such a density of information that you've come across here
Speaker 1: and that you're trying to put into this. It seems
Speaker 1: like it could be a longer story. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 1: Graham King was approached by numerous people to turn this
Speaker 1: into a mini series. And what what I think is
Speaker 1: so special about this movie as you get to see
Speaker 1: these misfits that have no reason of being together this band,
Speaker 1: and it's a coming of age story, especially to see
Speaker 1: Freddie who he is as a young man evolved in
Speaker 1: collectively write these songs together and then piece them together.
Speaker 1: And some of the best moments in this film are
Speaker 1: those serial crowd concert scenes that just make you feel
Speaker 1: as if you're sitting in the first three rows. And
Speaker 1: I don't think you could do that quite as well
Speaker 1: as on on a smaller format. But to your point, yes,
Speaker 1: I would love to drag this on kind of the
Speaker 1: way Johnny Johnny Depth took this into four iterations of
Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caravan. I don't know how many may
Speaker 1: on the way maybe, but yes, there is so much
Speaker 1: of a story to tell. We had a finite period
Speaker 1: of time. There are so many elements I wish we
Speaker 1: could tell in about Freddie Mercury, but ultimately, um, this
Speaker 1: is it's a two hour film that takes place from
Speaker 1: seventy two about. To be quite honest, some of the
Speaker 1: best biopics I think do do uh just um are
Speaker 1: are take place in in a finite period of time.
Speaker 1: I think capodis just around a few years if I'm correct.
Speaker 1: But of course he was. He was one of those
Speaker 1: characters Freddie Mercury that I didn't want to immediately dismiss
Speaker 1: as soon as we ended. In fact, we had to
Speaker 1: do a few pickup shots, and I mean I was
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to get to a few months later.
Speaker 1: When we got I got to be Freddie again. Well,
Speaker 1: I do not wish to dwell on the director situation.
Speaker 1: That's been well reported, but I'm curious about how it
Speaker 1: affected you and how difficult was it for you to
Speaker 1: keep the character in focus amid whatever disarray may have
Speaker 1: been caused on the set. Well, it was at one
Speaker 1: point I think it just it all raised my game
Speaker 1: in a way because there were moments I just told myself,
Speaker 1: you know, things are changing, and what you can do
Speaker 1: right now is depend on yourself, push yourself to to
Speaker 1: excel even further and take on the responsibility of not
Speaker 1: only honoring him Freddie and doing him justice, but making
Speaker 1: sure that you know, everyone around me was was not
Speaker 1: going to fall into some type of chaos or or
Speaker 1: or melt down. I think I just had to pick
Speaker 1: myself up by bootstraps and and continue doing my job
Speaker 1: as diligently as I thought I had been. And when
Speaker 1: you know, if you think about me and Mr Robot
Speaker 1: and the first season, I had multiple directors, and I
Speaker 1: knew Elliott. I knew exactly what I was gonna do
Speaker 1: from day one to U to the very end of
Speaker 1: that first season, and I had identified that before I started. Now,
Speaker 1: it's always helpful to have a director guide you to
Speaker 1: some degree, but with with this particular character, I had
Speaker 1: about it at least a year of preparation. So um,
Speaker 1: I I wasn't completely jarred by the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: actually got a little bit of rest right before, right
Speaker 1: before DECKX came on, and Dexter was just this incredible
Speaker 1: infusion of energy. He's he's an actor, so he was
Speaker 1: UM came from a perspective where he could watch all
Speaker 1: the footage and he knew exactly where we were going
Speaker 1: and what I was doing. We had Tom Siegel, who
Speaker 1: I don't think has got enough love that he's He
Speaker 1: is an incredible DP, and I thought, if we lose
Speaker 1: our DP, then we're going to have a problem, because
Speaker 1: he had just a cohesive vision for how he wanted
Speaker 1: to go from you know, some handheld stuff early on
Speaker 1: to a very polished look towards the end, and you know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think it's fairly seamless. Well, was that whole thing
Speaker 1: something you chalk up to, you know, creative tensions or
Speaker 1: do you feel that there was an onset environment you
Speaker 1: want to avoid going forward? Like what did you take
Speaker 1: ultimately from that situation? I think ultimately, I just I
Speaker 1: know that I have to be as prepared as humanly
Speaker 1: possible and but still be able to get go out
Speaker 1: there and perform spontaneously, and that that anything can happen
Speaker 1: on a set as it can in life, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just just compose yourself and try to be the
Speaker 1: best leader you can be on set. I think, just
Speaker 1: just be as as elegant and dignified and graceful as
Speaker 1: you can. And collectively, you know, we had we had
Speaker 1: an incredible cast that from day one supported me to
Speaker 1: the nth degree, and we all reads each other's games.
Speaker 1: I think you go in there you never know what
Speaker 1: you're going to expect, but if you come in with
Speaker 1: the right attitude, you can overcome any obstacle. And I
Speaker 1: guess along similar lines, I've heard that you want to
Speaker 1: be a director yourself. You've got material you're interested in directing.
Speaker 1: So I'm also curious what you learned from this whole
Speaker 1: situation that you know what not to do, what to
Speaker 1: do as a director. UM. I'll talk this up to
Speaker 1: Sam s Mel who I is someone that I've spent
Speaker 1: you know, five years with now we're about to do
Speaker 1: the last season and Mr Robot and we have this
Speaker 1: brotherly relationship where we collaborate so intensely. And I think,
Speaker 1: as a director, what what I would do is, you know,
Speaker 1: really trust you know the actors that I'm that I've
Speaker 1: chosen to work with, and know how to delegate everyone's
Speaker 1: job on set. I mean, you pick the right art director,
Speaker 1: you picked the right costume designer and cinematographer, costume design
Speaker 1: or makeup artist. I said costume to Undertwin, It's important
Speaker 1: on this movie, really is important on this movie. Um,
Speaker 1: and obviously you collaborate, but everyone has their job to do,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, you really have to come in
Speaker 1: prepared but allow for conversations to exist and know that
Speaker 1: everyone has the intention of really putting their best foot forward.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what I would do. I'd come in
Speaker 1: and lead, but allow everyone to do their job. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry all of that happened. I do think that
Speaker 1: your performances outstanding. And you know, even amongst those there
Speaker 1: there those who don't like the film, everyone still spotlights
Speaker 1: you so probably on the on the performance. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Man. I can't wait for people to see it.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's got something for everyone. It is,
Speaker 1: it's it'll get you exhilarated. It's so it's so exciting
Speaker 1: to see how these songs were made, who these guys
Speaker 1: were before they came to be one of the most
Speaker 1: legendary bands in rock history. Uh. It has a sense
Speaker 1: of family, but the the evolution of of so many
Speaker 1: things that queen is. Um. I think that they are revolutionaries.
Speaker 1: They defied stereotype and convention and they did things that
Speaker 1: were ahead of their time. And I think Freddie Mercury
Speaker 1: is a revolutionary spirit who was ahead of his time.
Speaker 1: He'll make you laugh and he'll make you cry, and
Speaker 1: ultimately I think it's a very uplifting film and hope
Speaker 1: help people go and check it out. You got more
Speaker 1: Mr Robot coming? What else? What else is up next
Speaker 1: for you? I think I'm gonna take a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well everyone check out the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. It opens tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And uh, Rommy May thank you for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: Real appreciate it. So happened to be with you. So
Speaker 1: I happen to a thank you very very much, had
Speaker 1: it