RRome, May 22nd. (askanews) – Rami Malek is the protagonist of one of the most anticipated films at Cannes, The Man I Love by Ira Sachs. Interpret Jimmy Georgea gay artist suffering from AIDS, in a delicate moment of his life, fragile and insecure, who moves in the New York art scene, between meetings and relationships.
The American actor spoke about the difficulty in approaching the character after being Freddy Mercury on the big screen in Bohemian Rhapsody. «When I read the script for the first time, I wondered if it was too similar. I can’t do this, I told myself, it could be problematic. There was a certain sense of fear. And I started to really think about what I was afraid of. Were they the similarities? Was it the singing? Was it the music? Was it the sound? But I knew I had to face the fear. If there’s one thing Freddie taught me it was to face fear» he said.
“But then I started to understand that these were similar men, but also from different worlds… a different energy, so I took the plunge,” he said.
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