00:00At first, when I read the script, I said, oh, I can't do this.
00:03There's too many similarities.
00:06I could, you know, it could be problematic.
00:09There was a certain sense of fear.
00:13And I started to really think about what I was afraid of.
00:19Was it the similarities?
00:21Was it the singing?
00:23Was it the, obviously, what was going on in the period?
00:27And, you know, the fear was, I knew I had to address the fear.
00:32If there's anything Freddie taught me, it was address the fear.
00:35And when I raced into it, I started to discover that these were men that were similar,
00:40but they were also worlds apart.
00:43I mean, you have an icon, a legend in Freddie, who was really, had a, you know, destination.
00:53Whereas Jimmy is just searching for, you know, creativity and love and intimacy and joy and pleasure in every moment.
01:04And, you know, he can sing.
01:06Does he sing as well as Freddie?
01:07No.
01:08Utterly fascinated by his refusal to give up.
01:12And so I kept thinking about this refusal, this stubborn refusal to disappear for Jimmy all throughout.
01:20And, of course, this undertone of death throughout the film, but predominantly it's about living.
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