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Rami Malek cast as Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic
‘Mr. Robot’ star will play former frontman
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Rami Malek will play former Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a music biopic about the band and lead singer’s life, Deadline reports.
“X-Men” director Bryan Singer will direct the project. Anthony McCarten, who last penned “The Theory of Everything,” is attached to write the script. Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor are on board as the film’s music producers.
Malek, 35, is best known for his role as Elliot Alderson on USA’s “Mr. Robot” for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Singer confirmed Malek’s casting on Instagram on Saturday.
Mercury, May and Taylor formed Queen in 1970 and became popular for their hit songs “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are the Champions,” “Somebody to Love,” among others. In 1991 Mercury passed away from complications from AIDS at the age of 45.
Filming is expected to begin early next year.
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More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s Honório Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman Mônica Benício, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” said Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on its X account. “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Covering Gay Day at the Zoo for @WashBlade . Here at @NationalZooDC pic.twitter.com/LqgGNOOAiM
— Michael Patrick Key (@MichaelKeyWB) May 5, 2024
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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