Sacha Baron Cohen to Portray Freddie Mercury in an Upcoming Movie About Queen

Borat, that irascible character that Sacha Baron Cohen portrayed in the popular 2006 movie of the same name, has been signed on to play Freddie Mercury in a new biopic on Queen. Physically, Cohen is deadringer in the role he is about to take up, and has just enough glitz and glamor to pull it off successfully. Think Liberace but with dark hair. While Cohen is Jewish and not Iranian like Freddie was, he could very well play Freddie Mercury to perfection. Cohen's other popular comic character Bruno was a gay fashionista, a bit closer to the Mercury persona than Borat. Freddie himself was very much a showman in his own style, known for wearing black nail polish with glitzy and sometimes not-so-glitzy outfits on stage. Yet he absolutely loved the stage and was far from being one who had stage fright. Having a four-octave range and the ability to compose great songs that are immortal by rock and roll standards, Freddie has long been due for a movie made about his band. Brian May, the renowned astrophysicist who was on his way to a great career studying the cosmos, temporarily got derailed when he became the guitarist for Queen. It's hard to beat May's riffs in songs like "Tenement Funster" and "Son and Daughter." But he completed his PhD in 2007 and continued the career he originally intended to get into. Along with John Deacon and Roger Taylor, the band first formed in 1971 and released a self-titled LP with a shocking pink color spotlight on Freddie Mercury on the cover. You won't find any synthesizers on any of the songs released on this fantastic disc. The music on "Queen" alone takes you to far away lands with "My Fairy King" and "The Night Comes Down."

Sacha won't have any trouble creating the magic that was once Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991 due to complications from AIDS. He will be able to give Freddie that aura of mystique, a loving tribute to rock and roll's only Parsi. Not too many Iranians have made it big in the rock and roll business in the western world, but Freddie Mercury - Farroukh Bulsara - did and created a form and quality of music that has not been seen since then. Who else would have thought of integrating opera with rock and roll? Sacha Baron Cohen is the perfect choice to portray Freddie in the biopic, and there is no doubt that he will do justice to rock and roll's greatest showman of all time.

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