Sacha Baron Cohen Vs Freddie Mercury

Comedian says unnamed band member had wanted the second half of the planned film to show how the band carries on from.

Sacha baron cohen vs freddie mercury. 29 2018 2 34 pm edt updated. Sacha baron cohen has revealed he walked away from a high profile role as freddie mercury because the surviving members of queen wanted a substantial part of the film to focus on them. Queen s drummer reveals why sacha baron cohen didn t play freddie mercury getty images by mike floorwalker oct. Released yesterday october 24 the film chronicles the.

First with comic character ali g in 1998 before rising to international fame as borat sagdiyev a kazakh journalist whose zero regard for social taboos and mores resulted in one of the. 29 2018 2 35 pm edt. Sacha baron cohen told howard stern he dropped out of the long in the works freddie mercury biopic over disagreements with queen over how the film would portray the more salacious aspects of the. Man of a million faces.

Sacha wanted to make a very outrageous film which i would imagine freddie mercury would have. According to queen drummer roger taylor via associated press interview why sacha baron cohen who was confirmed back in 2010 to be taking the lead role as mercury in bohemian rhapsody but being let go from the production in 2013. The director said cohen s vision for the film was explicit and true to mercury s spirit. I quit freddie mercury biopic after dispute with queen.

For several years there have been reports of a sacha baron cohen led biopic about queen frontman freddie mercury. At 47 sacha baron cohen has made his bones as a man of a million characters a la peter sellers. Unfortunately the film was not to be. And yet still he was and is the best choice to tell freddie mercury s story.