Rami Malek Made a Gold Grill Out of His Freddie Mercury Teeth

Were you are a huge Queen fan? Yeah, I love Queen like everybody else, but I didn't know the intimate details of Freddie's life, or Queen's life. And it was just fascinating.

As soon as I heard I might even have the job, I just started watching all the archival footage. Every interview I could get my hands on. And then we weren't officially greenlit, so I flew myself out to London, and started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.

I sat down with choreographers and I realized, oh, I don't need a choreographer. Because this guy wasn't-- he wasn't choreographed. He was spontaneous in every moment.

Every time he got onstage, you never knew what he was going to do. And I wanted to have that ability when I was out there. I never wanted the camera to know where I would be, or what the other actors-- I didn't want them to anticipate anything.

So I worked with a movement coach. So you just went-- it was just freeform. Like when you would be on stage, you would just move.

Yeah, well she could call something out, I'll show you. OK. Yeah.

I'd like to see it. OK. Well she just-- [CHEERING] She could be-- she'd go, OK, say you have a bubble bath streaming down your back.

And I'd be like, OK. And then she'd go, now giraffe it. And she'd go, now serve me some spaghetti.

[CHEERING] It'd be little things like that. Wow. Yeah.

And then we'd start to put it together into a sequence of moves. And so that's you in the film. It's a combination, right?

It's a combination. I had to sing every single day. So I had to get my voice right, so it wouldn't go throughout the course of filming.

But eventually, Brian May and Roger Taylor, the legendary members of Queen, incorporated as much of Freddie as they could. And it's mixed in with my voice a little bit here and there, and another singer named Marc Martell who's got an incredible voice. But it's done fairly seamlessly.

Yeah. because I thought if you are lip syncing, it doesn't look it. So it's you singing, and then some of the times it is you, and some of the times-- but you're always singing.

Yeah, I'm always giving it my all. But yeah, it's mixed in there, finally, with a whole lot of Freddie Mercury. And then with wearing the teeth, was that uncomfortable?

It must have been at first, very uncomfortable. I did-- the teeth took a while to get used to. Hard to talk in them, hard to sing in them, and hard to kiss in them.

But I appreciated them so much by the end of it. I just felt naked without them. They were so Freddie.

And-- You kept them, right? I kept them, and then I said, what would Freddie do? He'd keep something and then he'd go full Freddie with it and do the most ostentatious thing he could, so I--.

Wait for it, Wait for it. [LAUGHTER] I had them cast in gold. Wow.

[APPLAUSE] That's fantastic. Yeah. My god.

I'm not going to put them in my mouth. No, you have a grill now. I have a grill.

I have a Freddie grill, and I think he'd be tickled by these bad boys. Yes he would. This is amazing, well you're amazing.

I mean, you're great in Mr Robot. You're great and I know that's ending, so that's got to be weird to be winding that down. Yeah.

But you've just got a giant hit on your hands. This is an amazing movie, so Bohemian Rhapsody is in theaters everywhere tomorrow. Y'all gotta go see it.

And whether you're a Queen fan or not, you're going to love this movie, We'll be back.