 Nice to meet you, Joe. How you doing, man? I'm doing good. Doing good. How you doing? Other than midterms. Yeah. I'm all right. I'm all right. Hello, everyone. This is Jamey Johnson from CalTV Entertainment here at Castro Theater for the early red carpet screening for the film, Bohemian Rhapsody. Let's check it out. Being a biopic for a band like Queen, that's a really big deal, man. How'd you hear and get involved in it? You know what? Rami is someone I've known for 10 years. We've been working together a long time ago. I found out he got the role. I was in London. I happened to run into one of the producers and they were like, oh, oh, and my manager was there and he's trying to push me like managers do saying, oh, you got to put Joe in this movie. And they're like, Joe, do you play guitar? And I said, you know, not as good as Queen. And they were like, okay, yeah, whatever. And I was like, okay, I'm not getting this. But then a month later, I got a call saying that they felt like I really looked like John Deacon. And before I knew it, I had a bass in my hand. I was trying to learn how to play that. They wanted to hear my accent. I showed it to them and I got the role. It was crazy. So how did you hear about it and get involved in the project? You know, the producers, Graham King and Dennis O'Sullivan, they saw Mr. Robot. This television show that I do. And for some reason, I don't know how they thought that that guy would play Freddie Mercury, but thank God they did. The cast director, Suzy Figgis, to whom I am very, very grateful, has always kind of followed my career and she's been very supportive of me and asked me to come in and play Brian. She actually said, kind of do a little bit of homework, look at his voice, look at his gesture and come in with a bit of performance. And I did. So I went into that read-through and brought a bit of Brian May with me. And I think the producer's ears pricked up and after that, they gave me an audition the following week and it went from there basically. Every band has to start. How'd you guys all come together? Oh, it's been a long journey to find everyone and Queen has been an amazing band to tribute because of all the variety of music. So finding players who are strong musicians and talented females is a challenge. And we all love Queen. Yes, to start. What was one of your favorite parts about filming a movie? I think for just the opportunity to jump up and down on stage and pretend to be a rock star. Every time we got to put a song up on stage and have a concert scene, that was probably the most thrilling. Any time that we got to perform these concerts, it was just like the highlight of my life. And it was so funny because you really felt like you were a part of this band. You would walk out and they had extras there, they would all chant your name. They would scream and you kind of like raise your hand. It was like very strange, like you felt like it was sort of real and you're really playing the songs and you're like, you're dancing and all of that's coming together. It's just this euphoric feeling that I honestly, I wish I could have back. Now last question. We'll get you some trivia. Okay, ready? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can only fail in this situation. All right, let's go. Another one bites a dust. A huge song. What year was released? 1979, 1980, 1981 or 1982? Another one bites a dust. I'm going to say 1980. Correct. 1980, 1979, 1980, 1981 or 1982? I'm going to say another one bites a dust is 1980. 81? You had the first time was 1980, 1980. Either 80 or 81, I'm going to go with 80. Correct. Nice, nice. She's the only one that got it right. 1980. Well guys, thank you for tuning in. Bohemian Rhapsody drops November 2nd for all things entertainment tuning the Cal TV and as always go Bears.