
Freddie Mercury
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
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The Shyness of a Rock Character
I don't know if he ever thought he was ugly. He hated his teeth to the extent where if you were interviewing him for a first time, he would cover his teeth with his lip and was really self-conscious. And yet on stage, you know, he needed sunglasses. So there's a disconnect between the two personas. I think that's why I love him and something like John, perhaps for me growing up as a queer person. It was somebody who wasn't actually talking about their sexuality but could be this kind of totally inflated or fully inflated version of themselves. Could kind of fill the room with their self in a way that for a lot of queer people, they feel
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