complications. during which. were all the. robin sacha baron cohen was originally set to play freddie mercury he was he really wanted to do it but he didn t agree with brian may and roger tired of the band members who were producers of the film as well. the way they wanted they wanted to on a freddie s legacy he wanted to make a gritty a film and so they parted ways ronnie magic came in a couple years ago and what s this story about the recreation of the live eight concert must have been thought was the interesting thing about the state run he had to do it on the day of filming and this is said to be one of the greatest live performances so it was a hell of a thing for him to have to do this is actually freddie before. the real freddie performing up like i saw him myself it was amazing yeah.