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'Borat' Actor To Play FREDDIE MERCURY In Upcoming Film

May 4, 2007

According to Spin.com, Sacha Baron Cohen, the comical actor from faux-doc blockbuster "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", has signed to on to portray flamboyant QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury in a forthcoming yet-to-be titled film, the U.K.'s Mirror reports.

Cohen, 35, reportedly nudged out Johnny Depp for the role, which will depict Mercury's music, wild lifestyle, and untimely death in 1991 at the age of 45, due to an AIDS-related illness. "Film makers are working flat out to get the best possible script," an unidentified source told the Mirror. "Sacha loves the idea he can get away with playing Freddie after modeling Borat's look on him."

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