Joe Mazzello’s Friendship with Rami Malek Started Years Before They Co-Starred in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Entertainment Weekly

The actor reflects on his time filming 'The Pacific.'

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00:00 Welcome to Couch Surfing, the show where our stellar guests

00:02 look back at their big roles, their little roles,

00:04 and everything in between.

00:05 I'm here with Joe Mazzello.

00:08 Joe.

00:08 - Hello.

00:09 - Hello.

00:10 You ready?

00:11 - How are you?

00:12 No.

00:13 (laughing)

00:13 - Let's see what's on.

00:14 - I got older.

00:19 - You did.

00:20 You grew up.

00:21 - Hey, Rami.

00:21 - Is that Rami?

00:22 - Yeah, I saw him.

00:23 I was hanging out with him today.

00:24 - Really?

00:25 - Yeah, we were doing press today for Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:27 - Okay, so.

00:28 - We're together all the time.

00:30 - He's your comrade in this scene,

00:31 and you obviously have gone on to work with him again.

00:34 Were you guys immediately friends?

00:37 - On the set of this?

00:38 No, our relationship sort of escalated

00:41 where we became really, really close by the end of it.

00:44 In the earlier stuff, I was close with some

00:46 of the other guys a little bit more.

00:48 And it sort of went as our characters went,

00:50 where as our characters got closer

00:52 and we got more scenes together, we became closer.

00:56 And then by the end of it,

00:57 he was one of my best friends.

00:59 - What was your mind frame like going through this period?

01:02 - This was the hardest job I've ever done.

01:04 - I would imagine.

01:05 - My grandfather served in the Pacific.

01:07 - Is that right?

01:08 - And he passed away

01:08 when we were shooting episode seven of the show.

01:11 So I was in Australia when he passed away.

01:12 And it was something that was very personal for me

01:15 because, again, I was playing a real person

01:17 who had passed away,

01:18 but I just felt such an obligation to his family,

01:21 to all the Marines, to everyone in the armed forces

01:24 who served, and to my own grandfather.

01:27 (whooshing)

01:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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