The “Bohemian Rhapsody” star remembers thinking, “Okay, this is a very precarious situation.
I may well be going to jail for something Ive not done.”
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Rami Malekis looking back on a harrowing encounter with law enforcement.
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TheBohemian Rhapsodystar reflected on being accosted by police in a new interview.
“They said the [thief] was of Latin descent and, ‘You fit the description.’
I remember how hot that engine was.
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They must have been racing over there, and it was almost burning my hands.”
Malek escaped the encounter only because a friend told the police that they’d incorrectly assumed his ethnic background.
“I remember laughing on the cop car, thinking, ‘Okay, this is a very precarious situation.
I may well be going to jail for something I’ve not done.'”
“I didn’t speak English until I was 5 or 6.”
Robotstar also said his mother experienced a tumultuous past, which he can’t discuss in public.
“You have no idea what my mum has been through.
It’s difficult enough traveling.
Don’t make it harder.”
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Malek said he was unjustly scrutinized at airport security even after he became famous.
“I started to think, ‘What is happening?’
every time I tried to enter a country,” he explained.
“These days, there might be a moment.
Then they’ll go, ‘Nah, that’s the guy fromBohemian Rhapsody.
Let him through.'”
“I could feel the wind at my back with that statement.
There was a sense of needing to prove yourself in a foreign country.”
“That’s been flipped on its head.
