Rami Malek worked hard to land a role in the upcoming drama \u201cNuremberg.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI put myself out there, and I\u2019m sure there were a number of other actors up for the role, but I really tracked it down and I fought for it,\u201d he told Page Six exclusively at the Cinema Society screening of the film earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d star shared that being hungry for the role brought him back to his days as a struggling actor.<\/p>\n
Rami Malek told Page Six he actively pursued his part in \u201cNuremberg.\u201d Page Six<\/p>\n
He plays a psychiatrist who interviews Nazi leader Hermann G\u00f6ring in the historical drama. \u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
\u201c[It] reminded me of my youth when the small jobs would come in and you were just so elated and just to have that emotion\u2026that it hadn\u2019t died was enough to tell me, \u2018Wow, it\u2019s a magical art form that we get to be a part of\u2019 and [it\u2019s] exceptionally profound when you get a story like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The historical drama<\/a> is based on the 2013 book \u201cThe Nazi and the Psychiatrist.<\/a>\u201d In it, Malek plays Douglas Kelley, a psychiatrist who was tasked with determining if Hermann G\u00f6ring (Russell Crowe) is legally sane to stand trial at the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n G\u00f6ring was found guilty of all charges, including crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging. The night before he was to be hanged, he died by suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule.<\/p>\n The Oscar winner said that he didn\u2019t know much about the history, in which the WWII allies put Nazi leaders, propagandists and business leaders on trial.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Malik said that he didn\u2019t know much about the Nuremberg trials before making the movie. \u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n The Oscar winner stars opposite Russell Crowe in the film. \u00a9Sony Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cI think I knew as much as anybody did who studied history,\u201d he explained, but was \u201cimmediately taken\u201d once he read the book on which the film is based.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew it would make a fascinating film,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Other attendees at the MoMA screening and party at The Lobster Club included the film\u2019s other stars, Michael Shannon and John Slattery, along with Candice Bergen, John Benjamin Hickey, Judd Hirsch and Sony Pictures Classics chieftains Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rami Malek worked hard to land a role in the upcoming drama \u201cNuremberg.\u201d \u201cI put myself out there,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,3172,91,88,186,206,60646,5435,74292,28833],"class_list":["post-279942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-movies","tag-nazis","tag-rami-malek","tag-russell-crowe","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}