Your Verdict on Rami as Freddie?

From the very beginning, I just told myself, look, you're never going to be Freddie Mercury. There's only one Freddie Mercury. So just throw that idea out the window. Now, secondly, don't imitate him. Don't impersonate him. Learn as much as you possibly can. But what you have to do is inhabit him in a way and capture some essence of him. It's going to be a version of him. And it's my version. It's what I collectively put together by studying him in the greatest detail I could have ever put together. It was countless hours of archival footage, listening to every radio interview he did, and then working on his voice. I mean, there were days when I thought I could nail his voice exactly, but it wouldn't necessarily translate the way I wanted to sometimes on screen. and I thought, well, perhaps that's a good thing because you don't necessarily want it to be so spot-on that it feels like an impersonation. So I gave myself the liberty to kind of just let it live, go out there and have the experience as moment-to-moment and spontaneously as I could. There was nothing about the man that was choreographed, so I never wanted to look at things and say, I'm going to do that other than Live Aid. We had to do that move-for-move. I would watch him and watch his inspirations, Liza Minnelli and Bowie and Hendrix and try to see where he came up with this style, this elegance, this grace. He loved ballet. He loved opera. So I started doing all of those things just to capture some of what I thought he was and bring that to the table every day.