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Rami Malek Details LAPD Racial Profiling Incident: “A Very Precarious Situation”
Oscar winner Rami Malek revealed an encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department, in which he was racially profiled and thrown on a cop car.
The actor, who detailed the incident in a lengthy cover story with The Guardian, was discussing issues of identity and othering he had faced, from being profiled as a Middle Eastern man at the airport to being “what’s called ‘white passing’” with “very distinctive features” and thus not fitting in as a child while growing up in ’90s Los Angeles. Malek, who garnered a Best Actor Academy Award for his turn as Freddie Mercury in the 2018 blockbuster biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, will soon take to London’s Old Vic theatre stage as Oedipus and appear in The Amateur, a tense thriller in which he stars as a CIA decoder who goes rogue in order to avenge his wife’s murder. The 20th Century Studios pic, also starring Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan and Jon Bernthal, is bowing in theaters April 11.
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