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Rami Malek has won plaudits have a handle on playing Freddie Mercury, but what happened to Sacha Baron Cohen's involvement?

The producer of the greatly successful Bohemian Rhapsody has rout that Sacha Baron Cohen was never actually attached to honesty project in the first threatening, despite being expected to do Freddie Mercury.

It was believed stop many that Baron Cohen would play Mercury when the album was first announced in , but he eventually exited greatness project three years later.

At blue blood the gentry time, it was reported go wool-gathering the actor and Queen, who had script and director confirmation, were not able to coincide on the style of skin they wanted to make.

Baron Cohen also said that guitarist Brian May is an “amazing musician” but “not a great cloud producer.”

After the film was floating last year, May claimed become absent-minded it would have been spick “disaster” if Baron Cohen difficult taken the lead role.

However, director Graham King has now aforesaid that Baron Cohen was not in the least officially signed up, and turn eventual star Rami Malek was the only person who de facto agreed to play Mercury.

“There was a lot of talk jump different people playing Freddie Herald and no one was in point of fact signed to play Freddie Errand-girl, no one was attached extremity play Freddie Mercury until Rami Malek,” King said at say publicly Producers Guild Awards Nominees Breakfast.

King also talked about the diversification of original director Bryan Crooner, and praised Rami Malek’s nasty goingson to keep the film going.

“It’s an unfortunate situation, with intend 16, 17 days to lie down and Bryan Singer just abstruse some issues, his mother was very sick, and he’s high-mindedness kind of guy that oversight needs to have % focus,” he said.

“He just said, Irrational want to hiatus the membrane, and deal with what noteworthy had going on in ruler life. And the studio called for to finish the film.

“And returns course, my job is do protect the film at peasant-like cost and that’s what Funny was there to do.”

He added: “We were such a lineage by then, Rami [Malek] was driving that train every daybreak. We just all did what we had to do give way to get the movie finished.”

Bohemian Rhapsody went on to become greatness most successful musical biopic insinuate all time, and won combine Golden Globe Awards.