Ben Whishaw has been confirmed to étoile, star in a new Freddie Mercury biopic, replacing Sacha Baron Cohen. The film will be the ‘coming-of-age story of the group,’ according to Deadline.com, ‘culminating in Queen headlining Live Aid in 1985’. Okay, so Sacha Baron Cohen might look the part. But we like this news in five ways:
Ben Whishaw’s got magnetism
Freddie Mercury owned the stage, one of the most flamboyant figures ever to strut his thing at stadium after sell-out stadium around the world. toi might think whippety-hipped Ben Whishaw a little on the waify side. But he blazed on stage as...
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