A clip shared on Twitter shows how closely Malek replicated Mercury’s moves during Queen’s historic 1985 Live Aid performance, widely considered to be the band’s greatest on-stage moment.
The actor previously revealed on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon that the mammoth Live Aid scenes were filmed on day one of taping.
Mercury then grab his bottomless microphone stand – his signature prop – as does Malek.
“It was almost more useful at times to watch Liza than it was to watch Freddie himself,” Malek told the New York Times.