Bohemian Rhapsody Cast Interview

Let me start by saying congratulations on the movie. You were all fantastic in it. As a longtime Queen fan, I was very curious how the final Live Aid thing would be done, and it's so effing good. I just want to know, like, if you guys could talk a little bit about behind the scenes of filming the Live Aid stuff, because it has this amazing energy that you want to, like, sing along as it's happening. You know, we started out day one with Live Aid, and we went through every song in sequence till the last day of that week when we did the entire concert together, and I think that's when we felt at our best. You need to go from one song to the next to really have that same adrenaline rush that they had. We had an audience of Queen fans out there recreating that iconic concert, and it's an adrenaline rush like you could never imagine. Yeah, we'd studied that footage, like, endlessly in the lead up to filming, and I remember every time watching it just being mesmerized by the whole thing, but particularly just Freddie's ability to engage 70,000 people at once, and I remember the buzz of watching that footage on my little computer screen studying, and then being on set that was perfectly replicated, looking around and seeing everybody in full costume and makeup, seeing the incredible attention to detail and just having this incredible experience of just realizing we are part of this. It was quite a surreal moment, but just what a way to start. It was just a real privilege to be up on that set and doing it, and it set the tone for the film, and just this celebratory tone. One of the things about this film is one of those rare films where if it had been five hours long, I would have been okay. There's just so much to the story, and I would have been happy with it, so I'm curious, what scenes didn't make the cut, and what were you sad to see go? Yeah, there probably is a five-hour film. There is a five-hour film. I feel like the assembly, the initial cut, was probably four and a half hours, and I'm not kidding. Freddie, a crazy little thing called Love, he wrote it, and he wrote it in a bathtub. He got the inspiration for it. He asked for a guitar, and that's where he created that song, and we shot that scene. I was kind of sad to see that go. We'll see it somewhere down the line. We did the whole Live Aid sequence as well, so the songs that you see in the film, I think you only see three of the six songs that they actually played on the day, so there is a version of that whole concert. But it's been cut. It's just been cut, and we're gonna get to see it soon, and then you will, too. Yeah. I think that's gonna be an extra. That's coming later, right? Yeah. Oh, okay, this is exciting news. Anything else? Yeah, John Deacon's introduced as sort of this really accidental rock star. He's just working, doing a little soldering, and they kind of come up to him and ask him to join the band, and that was something I really wanted to get in because you see that it's such an atypical story. This was just something for the weekends, just something in his spare time that he was doing. He never thought that Queen would blow up the way it did, and so before he knew it, he was in the biggest band of all time without even almost realizing it, and so that was sort of a funny thing that I wish we had gotten in there. I actually haven't seen the final cut because I haven't been able to. I've seen an earlier cut. Is 39 in there? No, no, it's not. I would say we play the song 39 in Japan, and that, for me, was one of my favorite days of filming and one of the performances, so I've missed that. I love that song. It's a great song. Which leads me to my next thing. Queen, no matter what songs you put in this movie, and you partly answered it, but no matter what songs you put in this movie, there are 20 other songs you wanna see in this movie because they're so good. For each of you, what's the song that you wish had made the movie? If any. That's so tough because you have to cut down that list, obviously, like you say. I mean, my favorite Queen song is White Queen as it began, of Queen II, but yeah, but there's not really a place for it in the movie, so, you know. Wish the game was so good, or the Flash theme. Flash theme. Flash, yeah. So good. For selfish reasons, I'd have liked Brighton Rock just to have learned that amazing guitar riff, yeah. But I gotta say, there are a lot of Queen songs in the film, right? I mean, the whole, the entire film is scored by Queen. At one point, I think we had 35 Queen songs in there to start, but yeah. We're obviously gonna miss a few. I would've always loved to see the making of Under Pressure because that's such a great story, but Under Pressure does make the movie. The soundtrack's, I gotta go, but the soundtrack's amazing. Queen fans are gonna lose their minds, but that's why I was saying this is a story I could've had a five hour cut for. Yeah, so did all of us. We didn't get our way. Seriously, congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you.