Egyptian-American actor Rami Malek says: "The music is timeless. One thing I thought before we started was that we needed to make a film that would live up to it." Lucy Boynton, who plays Mary, Freddie Mercury's wife, and lifelong best friend, says: “People are asking ‘did we explore the darker sides of Freddie's life?’. The exciting thing is that the film doesn't shy away from anything, but it's done in a really beautiful, respectful way." So while we see wrecked lounge rooms full of vodka bottles and there is a glimpse of a dwarf in a party scene, there is no visible cocaine and barely a whiff of gay sex. Freddie/Malek does gaze longingly at a man at a truck stop but, like a Mills and Boon romance, the story stops at the toilet door. You may struggle to find much of Mercury’s defiant sense of mission in Bohemian Rhapsody's narrative, but it is certainly there in Malek's exact re-creation of his show-stopping turn at Live Aid in 1985, which is both the climax and grand finale of the film.