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Rami Malek Says He Got Into Character By Doing All The Same Drugs As ‘Mr. Robot’ Character

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Via USA.

Rami Malek sat down with The Hollywood Reporter recently to discuss his role as Elliot Anderson on USA’s “Mr. Robot.”

Anderson is a hacker with a host of issues, like anxiety and depression, who uses opiates such as Morphine, his drug of choice, to cope.

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So how did Malek get into the head space of someone on those drugs?

Simple, he took them himself.

“I basically asked Sam Esmail, the writer and creator of the show, and now director of the second season, which drugs Elliot was going to do throughout all the seasons and I just started to do whatever he did,” he said.

When asked if he was aware that they were live and his admission couldn’t be cut from the record he answered, “Yeah, that’s what I did.”

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The more you know.

Watch the interview clip in the video below.

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