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Rami Malek's Freddie Mercury Was Almost In Rocketman · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Ryan Seacrest Marvel movies known for their
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Speaker 1: incredibly broad universe and how the film's cross pollinate, where
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Speaker 1: the stars of X Men movies might make cameos in
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Speaker 1: and Avengers or Spider Man moving and so forth. You
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Speaker 1: don't typically think that would happen and a rock and
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Speaker 1: roll biopic, but it almost did in the new Elton
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Speaker 1: John film rocket Man, where Rommy Malick nearly showed up
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Speaker 1: its queen frontman Freddie Mercury role that it earned him
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Speaker 1: in Oscar in Bohemian Rhapsody. The moment was possible because
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Speaker 1: of director Dexter Fletcher, who was called and replaced Brian
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Speaker 1: Singer after he was fired midway through the shooting of
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Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody. Dexter also ended up getting hired to helm
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Speaker 1: Rocketman and tells Gay Star News, I had an idea
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Speaker 1: at one point where Elton's in a restaurant with his mother.
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Speaker 1: I thought Freddie could be at another table and they'd
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Speaker 1: wave to each other. It would have been amazing, but
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Speaker 1: it didn't come to pass. It would have been a
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Speaker 1: little too known. I'm not looking to set out to
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Speaker 1: make a cinematic universe Rockemman's out now. That's direct from Hollywood.