Roger Daltrey took a swipe at Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody as he said actor Rami Malek 'did a great job with a thin script' on Thursday.
The Who frontman, 75, gave his opinion on the smash hit 2018 film during a Q&A at the launch of the The Who's pop-up shop at Brewer Street in Soho, ahead of their July 6 headline show at Wembley Stadium.
Discussing whether the Baba O'Riley hitmakers would ever make their own biopic, the iconic singer weighed in on the wildly successful film, which saw Freddie Mercury actor Rami, 37, take home the Best Actor Academy Award.
Swipe: Roger Daltrey took a swipe at Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody as he said actor Rami Malek 'did a great job with a thin script' on Thursday (pictured last month)
Acclaimed: Discussing whether the Baba O'Riley hitmakers would ever make their own biopic, the iconic singer weighed in on the wildly successful film, which saw Freddie Mercury actor Rami, 37, take home the Best Actor Academy Award
Praising the Mr Robot actor but taking a swipe at the script of the biopic, he said: 'I've watched Bohemian Rhapsody, I thought Rami was great. He deserved the awards, don't know about an Oscar, but he definitely deserved to be honoured.
'He did a great job with a very thin script.'
The film was directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay written by Antony McCarten. Original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor acted as advisors on the script.
The comments come as guitarist Brian slammed critics pointing out alleged mistakes in Bohemian Rhapsody.
Queen: He said: 'I've watched Bohemian Rhapsody, I thought Rami was great. He deserved the awards, don't know about an Oscar, but he definitely deserved to be honoured'
In an Instagram post on Thursday, the rocker, 71, wrote: 'Some of the comments on my previous post about the 'accuracy' of the Bohemian Rhapsody film make me realise that many people don't understand what 'accurate' means in the context of a biopic – rather than a documentary.
'Stop and think about it. You're trying to portray 20 years in two hours of screen time. And you have a story you want to tell about the emotional and spiritual journey of a man in the context of his family and friends, and his entire life's work.
'You want to tell the story honestly, decently, without avoiding any important issues, yet without gratuitous prurient detail. You want it to make sense to people of all races, colours, sexual proclivities and ages. And, crucially, you want it to be entertaining, emotionally inspiring, or else why bother ?!
“Think about the vast amount of situations and millions of words actually spoken in that 20 years. There is no way to do tell your story without compressing time scales, moving events around, condensing multiple conversations over years into single scenes, amalgamating characters, and basically LEAVING 99.9 per cent of what actually happened OUT !!!”
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