10 Movie Moments Which Aren’t What They Seem
6. Bohemian Rhapsody - Live Aid In An Airfield
As fantastic as Rami Malek is in the role of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury throughout the musical treat that is 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody, the real star of the show was always going to be that recaptured Live Aid performance at Wembley in 1985.
Malek has since described his first day on set as Mercury performing on the Live Aid stage as 'a baptism of fire', but it didn't actually involve him standing in front of 70,000 fans singing 'We Will Rock You' inside of a stadium.
The visual of Malek strutting and belting out the band's biggest hits in front of the huge capcity crowd was actually achieved by building a to-scale replica of the stage in the middle of an airfield in Hemel Hempstead and propping up green screens behind the 2,000 live fans which were situated in front of the stage. Those 2,000 screaming folks were eventually multiplied in post and the rest of Wembley Stadium was later convincingly CGI'd into existence.
Once the finished effect was polished off and ready to go, we were delivered one of the most compelling musical experiences ever to be put on a cinema screen.