Ira Sachs on Casting Rami Malek in 'The Man I Love' Without Seeing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
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Chris O'Falt
10d ago· 7 min readenNews
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Summary
Ira Sachs' new film "The Man I Love," premiering at Cannes, stars Rami Malek as Jimmy George, a fictional New York performance artist in the downtown experimental theater scene of the late 1980s. Sachs and writing partner Mauricio Zacharias discuss the experience of being young and gay in NYC during the '80s and '90s, exploring both the beauty and horror of that era. Notably, Sachs cast Malek without having seen his Oscar-winning performance as Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody," focusing instead on Malek's theatrical and performance art background.
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· 3 pulledI was hanging out with people who were making plays and writing The Village Voice articles, and going out at night, and then the...
The film tackles the beauty and horror of gay life in 1980s NYC.
Ira Sachs cast Rami Malek to sing without seeing Bohemian Rhapsody.
in 'The Man I Love,' Ira Sachs tackles the beauty and horror of gay life in 1980s NYC.
