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Katy Perry could land the role of Freddie Mercury’s girlfriend/ longtime friend, Mary Austin in a new biographical movie about the famous Queen singer according to The Mirror. Sacha Baron Cohen is slated to play Mercury.
Katy Perry is in the running to play Freddie Mercury’s long-term girlfriend in a new film.
She hopes to land the part of Mary Austin alongside Dictator star Sacha Baron Cohen who will take the lead role as the late Queen singer.
California girl Katy, 27, wants to make the switch from music to big screen and she hopes the biopic of her rock idol will be her big break.
She’s such a big fan that she dressed as Freddie at her own birthday party.
Filming is due to start next year and Sacha is already working with remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor on the movie, which is being tipped as a box-office hit.
A friend of Katy said: “Katy would love to be in the film as she is such a huge fan. She would want to play Mary Austin ideally. Katy has a similar look to Mary and would be a brilliant foil to Sacha.”
The film is being produced by Oscar-winning Graham King, best known for The Departed, and producers have secured the rights to many of Queen’s biggest hits, including We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are The Champions.
Stephen Frears, who directed Oscar-winning The Queen, starring Helen Mirren, is tipped to take the helm. It will focus on Freddie’s rise to fame from the band’s formation in 1971 through to their monumental performance at Live Aid in 1985.
Freddie began dating Mary Austin in the early 1970s before he became famous, and the couple enjoyed a six-year relationship as Queen hit the big time.
Freddie later admitted to Mary he was bisexual and they went their separate ways. The singer had relationships with several male partners but always remained close to the woman he called his “common-law” wife.
She was one of the first people he told when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive, and she comforted him during his final days before he died of Aids-related pneumonia in 1991 at the age of just 45.
In one interview Freddie said: “All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary, but it’s simply impossible.” In his will he left Mary, 61, his home in London.
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