I knew I was never going to be part of the band, but to be a part of the story. So I really, really wanted to be a part of it. When I read the script-I had been brought up on the music of Queen. I did that chat with the whole team, went away, and it seemed like the job went away. Originally, I sat down and did a Skype with her and the whole production team for the role of Jim Hutton played by Aaron McCusker. It came to me through Suzie Figgis, the casting director in the UK. It looks like you’re going to have a big hit on your hands.
Leech passed some time in traffic by chatting with Queerty about his character, Freddie Mercury, and his next big project. (Director Bryan Singer was let go shortly before the film was finished.) Instead, it offers a well-crafted, entertaining look at a rock icon and his personal life set to some of rock’s most unforgettable anthems. That the finished film shows no signs of the behind-the-scenes chaos could have stymied the production. Robot) as Mercury, Joe Mazzello (Jurassic Park) as Queen bass player John Deacon, Ben Hardy (X-Men: Apocalypse) as drummer Roger Taylor, Gwilym Lee (Midsummer Murders) as guitarist Brian May, and Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express) as Mercury’s sometimes-wife Mary.
Leech plays the elusive Paul Prenter, Mercury’s sometime manager and longtime boyfriend.
Which may be why he is oddly calm and articulate even while stuck in LA traffic when he calls to answer my questions about Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of Queen singer Freddie Mercury that opens tonight in a theater near you. The Irish actor Allen Leech is known for his role as Tom the hot working-class chauffeur on Downton Abbey. Bohemian Rhapsody star Allen Leech in Downton Abbey
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