Sir Brian May watched Bohemian Rhapsody with both 'joy and horror' and had to fight to keep his favourite Rami Malek Freddie Mercury scene from being left ...
It’s going to take a lot of careful thought and a lot of magical inspiration – which is what happened [with Bohemian Rhapsody]. So maybe it’s going to take just as long for this. Sir Brian told us: "It’s going to take a lot of careful thought and a lot of magical inspiration – which is what happened [with Bohemian Rhapsody]. But we fought for that scene to stay in, because the realism of it is quite gut-wrenching. One of the great breakthroughs early on was [screenwriter] Peter Morgan saying: ‘This is a film about family.’ It’s about all the stuff that happens in a family – some good, some bad, the going away, the searching for independence and then the nurture of the family. Sir Brian May watched Bohemian Rhapsody with both "joy and horror" and had to fight to keep his favourite Rami Malek Freddie Mercury scene from being left on the cutting room floor.