00:00Incredible, before I fall down.
00:27Okay, please.
00:29You're the custodian of this.
00:31All of you.
00:32Queen, thank you.
00:33Hi, everybody.
00:34Congratulations.
00:36And I was just wondering why was it important for you to tell this story in this format?
00:47Wow.
00:48Wow.
00:49That's a loaded question.
00:50Yes.
00:51Go ahead.
00:52No, no, no, Brian, go ahead.
00:54Go ahead.
00:55It's probably fair to say we were reluctant, actually, to approach this format, Roger
01:00and myself.
01:01But we had this feeling that if we didn't do it and we didn't do it with the right people,
01:05then it would get done wrong by somebody and it wouldn't do Freddie justice.
01:09So we really, in the interest of portraying Freddie as he deserves to be portrayed, we got into
01:15it.
01:16And if it hadn't been for the fact that we found the right people at the right time, then
01:20we wouldn't be standing here.
01:22And number one is Graham King here.
01:23Hey, this is for Graham.
01:24I'm very good.
01:25Congratulations.
01:26I know you've been at this for a long time.
01:27I have to ask now, with the benefit of hindsight, how big of a hurdle with Bryan Sanger's departure
01:29do you share the award with him today?
01:44Not something I really should talk about tonight.
01:46It's a good question, though.
01:49Yeah, I'll follow Graham's lead.
01:56Next question.
01:57So you didn't feel compelled to talk about him on stage and feel like it was appropriate?
02:07We wanted to, I will take this one.
02:10There's only one thing we needed to do, and that was to celebrate Freddie Mercury in this
02:15film.
02:16He is a marvel.
02:18There is only one Freddie Mercury, and nothing was going to compromise us giving him the
02:24love, celebration, and adulation he deserves.
02:27I'm just going to add that every single person that worked on this film collaborated and did
02:36it out of the passion of making this story.
02:38That was everybody.
02:40Angela Bishop from Network 10 Australia.
02:41Brian, if I could ask you.
02:42The critics weren't universally forthcoming with their praise when the movie came out, shall
02:45we say.
02:46And a lot of them seem to be trying to tell you how they thought the movie should have been
02:53made and how the story should have been told.
02:54Yeah.
02:55So standing there with those awards and with the box office doing what it is, have you anything
03:01you'd like to say?
03:02Oh, I'd love to say that.
03:03We could say we told you so, I suppose.
03:04I think, to be honest, the mistake that some of the critics made was to review the trailer,
03:18review the teasers instead of waiting to review the film, and then they would have seen the
03:22truth.
03:23So they jumped to a couple of conclusions, and I think when people do stake their claim
03:27on something, it's hard for them to withdraw.
03:29A couple of them actually have rather graciously said, actually, we were wrong and the film does
03:34the thing properly.
03:35But, you know, there's a million films you can make about any one person.
03:39We made this one film about Freddie.
03:41We believe it's the right one, and the public is, most of them are crying, which is amazing.
03:47You know, everybody says, we cried, we cried, and we had to go back.
03:50We cried again.
03:51So that tells me we did it right, or the team did it right.
03:55We didn't do it right, the team did it right.
03:57Yeah, I'd like to add something there, which is, as I'm sure you realise, Queen have had
04:02a history of some of the worst press of any major band in the world, and it's referred
04:08to in the movie.
04:10Our musical in London opened to some of the worst reviews in the West End, and ran for
04:1514, 16 years.
04:17And this movie has been accepted by the public.
04:20And I believe the public is the great arbiter.
04:23And the one important thing is that Freddie believed that as well.
04:26And I'm sure that he's with us in terms of how we did this film.
04:30We did a film for people to enjoy, to laugh, to cry, and to celebrate.
04:36If I could squeeze in a quick question for you, Mike Myers, would you mind?
04:40Sure.
04:41Talking to this thing?
04:42Yes, please.
04:43Oh, fantastic.
04:44It's an old fashioned thing.
04:45It's sound all over the world.
04:46One day I will figure that out.
04:47One day I will figure that out.
04:49Your connection to this film.
04:53Can you talk to me a little bit about that journey and how close you feel to this game?
04:59This experience of Queen, for me personally, is a continuing series of minds being blown.
05:12In the suburbs of Toronto, I was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody.
05:16And then I had a chance to make a movie.
05:18It was Wayne's World.
05:19And I said I wanted to be Bohemian Rhapsody.
05:21There was a little resistance to it.
05:24And I said, ultimately, I don't want to make the movie if it isn't Bohemian Rhapsody.
05:29Put me in a time machine.
05:31Get the call.
05:32Would you want to be in a movie about Bohemian Rhapsody?
05:35And these are gods that walk as men.
05:39And I can't believe I'm here.
05:40So, you know.
05:41And Rami is just fantastic.
05:43And Graham is.
05:44So this whole experience is.
05:45And just people coming up to you and just saying how much it made them cry.
05:50And how much it just celebrates these geniuses.
05:54So I'm just thrilled to be part of it.
05:57Hi.
05:58You know, you have talked about the whole process of you becoming Freddie.
06:04I wonder how much Freddie changed you.
06:09Because you seem more open, more joyous.
06:13Talk to me about how he infected you.
06:17Well, very powerfully.
06:22I think the misconception with me may be that I play a very profoundly alienated human being
06:32with major social anxiety on Mr. Robot.
06:36I am not necessarily that human being.
06:39I relate to that human being.
06:42And there are aspects of Freddie Mercury that I relate to.
06:49You can look at this man and see him step on stage with these incredible individuals.
06:56And together form this super human rock god icon status.
07:03He steps out there with a cape and a crown.
07:06And he is a deity.
07:08He is a god.
07:10And there is a part of him, I think, that as he could hold an audience in the palm of his
07:16hand, at some moments just wanted to be held that way as well.
07:22So I tried to find the humanity in him.
07:25I related to the nature of him being an immigrant, struggling to discover his identity.
07:34And so powerfully taking everything that he was discovering, this complication, this chaos,
07:42this turmoil, and this beauty inside of him, and throw it out there and lift himself and
07:48everybody else up to be everything they know they could be.
07:53And in looking at that, he lifted me up to be everything I could be on this film.
08:04So I said, I think it's going to write this one.
08:09And it's going to be different.
08:10I said, here's the first one.
08:14And I said, here's the first one.
08:17So, he does not edit that.
08:22When you think of the name, he is the first one.
08:23And, you did not edit that he does not know he did not know.
08:28He has the first one.
08:29He does not know when the movement was just like this.
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