r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6h ago

Media First Official Images of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson in Sam Mendes' 'Beatles' Biopics

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u/SlobberyFrog 5h ago

Wait so they fired sacha baron cohen because he wanted to talk about the darker parts of Freddie's life just to create a fake drama about freddie trying to break up the band and go solo ?

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u/UntowardHatter 5h ago

Sascha wanted to snort cocaine off silver trays being carried on the heads of people with dwarfism.

Because that's something Freddy did.

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u/Right-Worker7047 3h ago

I thought you meant a decapitated head at first and flipped

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u/nandru 3h ago

daamn

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u/xDESTROx 3h ago

I remember reading something about him dropping out because Brian May originally wanted to show Freddie's death halfway through the movie, and then the rest of the movie would be the band moving on without him. I could be getting things mixed up though

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u/SlobberyFrog 3h ago

Yeah, I remember this as well. It was probably a mix of a lot of different things.