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Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which he won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win in that category. Time magazine named Malek one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. Born in Torrance, California, to Egyptian immigrant parents, he studied theater before acting in plays in New York City. He had supporting roles in film and television, including the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007), the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), and the Night at the Museum film trilogy (2006–2014). Since his breakthrough, Malek has starred in Papillon (2017), the crime film The Little Things (2021), played the main antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), and portrayed David Hill in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rami Malek, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Mario is a simple franchise; clear cut heroes and villains, a cute art style, tunes that could easily be mistaken for jazz standards. In the internet’s ongoing attempt to imagine the Mario Bros into a full feature length narrative format, I’ve seen many ideas which try to add needlessly grandiose and complex stories and themes into what ought to be a tale as old as time; hence, “the musical.” With so many video game films suddenly becoming creative in their genre interpretation—Detective Pikachu as a neo-noire mystery, Rampage as a bonkers Kaiju flick, and Mortal Kombat as a violent martial arts fantasy film—a musical for Mario just makes sense.
