“Bohemian Rhapsody” star Rami Malek will be playing the villain facing off against Daniel Craig in the upcoming “Bond 25.” In a recent interview with The Mirror, however, he told the filmmakers that he would accept the role under one condition: the villain not be a religious fundamentalist or Arabic-speaking terrorist.
“It’s a great character and I’m very excited,” said Malek. “But that was one thing that I discussed with [director] Cary Fukunaga. I said, ‘We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or a religion. That’s not something I would entertain, so if that is why I am your choice then you can count me out’. But that was clearly not his vision. So he’s a very different kind of terrorist.”
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