Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury is worth going gaga over | Will Dean

Baron Cohen has the ethnic elasticity to make this Freddie Mercury biopic work. And if you needed a further good omen, it's roped in the screenwriter of The QueenE-lo-ley-ley. You suspect that the decision to make a film about the lead-up to Queen's career-defining set at Live Aid in 1985 came down solely to Sacha Baron Cohen's more-than-passing similarity to Freddie Mercury.It's probably reason enough. Sure, Baron Cohen is from London and Jewish, but such is his racial elasticity that he's conv...

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