{"id":9000,"date":"2019-07-03T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:09:18","slug":"bond-25-villain-rami-malek-reveals-the-one-thing-he-wouldnt-let-the-director-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/bond-25-rami-malek-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bond 25’ Villain Rami Malek Reveals the One Thing He Wouldn’t Let the Director Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bohemian Rhapsody\u00a0<\/em>star\u00a0Rami Malek wants to shake things up for James Bond.<\/p>\n

Malek is currently playing the villain in the untitled\u00a0Bond 25<\/em><\/a> opposite Daniel Craig, and now we know who his character is (ish): A terrorist. But the Oscar-winner insisted his baddie be unlike any previous terrorist we’re used to seeing in these types of movies. To ensure that, he made one demand of the film’s director, Cary Fukunaga, before taking on the role:<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or religion. That’s not something I would entertain,’\u201d Malek revealed to UK tabloid\u00a0The Daily Mirror <\/em>regarding his conversation with the director.<\/p>\n

The actor went on to tell Fukunaga \u201c\u2018So if that is why I am your choice, then you can count me out.’\u00a0But that was clearly not his vision.”<\/p>\n

Malek, who is an American of Egyptian descent, is filming what is expected to be Craig’s last movie as 007. And despite the production’s recent set backs<\/a>, the actor has no complaints.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a great character, and I\u2019m very excited… He\u2019s a very different kind of terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plot specifics have been filed under “For Your Eyes Only” (reference!), but what we do know is that Malek’s high-tech terrorist forces Bond in part to come out of the super spy’s retirement following the events of 2015’s\u00a0Spectre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Malek is one of the youngest actors to ever play a villain in a Bond movie, and he continues the franchise’s recent trend of casting Academy Award winners to play Bond’s nemesis. Javier Bardem kicked it off with his iconic and menacing portrayal of Silva, the former MI6 operative-turned-cyber terrorist. Two-time Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz took on the role of Blofeld, Bond’s arch-nemesis, in\u00a0Spectre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fans are very eager to see what sparkage Craig and Malek bring to the movie, which hits theaters April 8, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bohemian Rhapsody\u00a0star\u00a0Rami Malek wants to shake things up for James Bond. Malek is currently playing the villain in the untitled\u00a0Bond 25 opposite Daniel Craig, and now we know who his character is (ish): A terrorist. But the Oscar-winner insisted his baddie be unlike any previous terrorist we’re used to seeing in these types of movies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}