A new trailer was released this week for the upcoming Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, and this time, frontman Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) is definitely gay.
That’s one step more revealing than the first trailer, which did not touch on Mercury’s sexuality or battle with AIDS.
Of course, trailer omissions don’t necessarily mean the film itself won’t explore these topics, but that hasn’t stopped the Internet criticism machine from churning.
Even so, considering Freddie’s larger-than-life queer presence, this second trailer is still tame in the gay department. Sure, he references himself as a “hysterical queen,” but that is also the name of the band.
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The brief man-on-man rehearsal room leg touch (pictured above) is more explicitly gay, but surely his real-life rehearsal room antics skewed a bit more exciting, no?
We’ll just have to wait and see how the final cut rolls out, but we’re cautiously optimistic.
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Bohemian Rhapsody arrives in theaters November 2.
niles
Isn’t that a woman in the foto?
decampbell
No, that’s Freddy with long hair.
TVC 15
That shot was in the first trailer.
Billy Budd
I am not expeting much from this movie. Freddie’s true life was filled with drugs (he snorted enormous amounts of coke, even once at Michael Jackson’s ranch, at the dinner table), debauchery and depravity. When he came to my country to sing at the Rock in Rio Festival, he hired DOZENS of call boys all at once and had sex with them all the time. Does any of you believe these scenes will be in the movie?
spacecadet
Learn not to be so pessimistic…I already saw an advance screening for the move with a test audience this past May. It does not shy away from taking part in illicit activities. The movie is excellent. I believe it will become a mainstream hit and score tons of film nominations.
Billy Budd
Sasha Baron Cohen, who was initially hired to play Freddie, left the production because the debauchery and depravity had been erased from the script.
spacecadet
I saw the movie – it does show the full extent of Freddie’s flaws. Malek is amazing in the role.
dean089
He also said that he was led to believe it was a biopic about Freddie but then found out that Freddie’s death occurs early on in the movie and it was mostly about the band overall, so he quit.
The thing I’m trying to wrap my mind around is that Freddie Mercury was a VERY hairy man. His body hair had body hair(!). They’ve given Rami Malek a wig and a set of buck teeth but he is otherwise one of the world’s most hairless men. So I’m watching this trailer and not seeing Freddie Mercury, just a skinny twink pretending to be Freddie.
okbye
I’m so glad Cohen isn’t doing it.
Without reanimating Freddie no one is going to be perfect. I think they got pretty close. His build is good too and it looks like he can move right from the trailers. Malek is a good actor, I’m optimistic.
And it opens on my birthday!
Thomas Loom
Weather they show real or not I’m still going to see it. I’m tired of people thinking these famous people are untouchable by reality. They are human and have problem and issues too. Still love Freddie still WONDERFUL talent.
Donston
I’m not certain what you mean considering nearly every biopic about musicians features drugs, debauchery, mental health struggles, etc.
macer1976
Why do people get upset if he’s not gay enough, whatever that means. If you don’t like it, make your own movie