We’re less than 2 weeks away from the opening of a film fans have been waiting on for nearly a decade. Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic, opens nationally on November 2nd, and the Slacker fam could not be more excited. Since the project was announced in 2010, we’ve been through at least three possible Freddie Mercury incarnations & two different directors.

But it’s finally here! And we know it because Rami Malek is on a press tour. He sat down with Stephen Colbert recently to talk about the stress of having to perform AS Freddie in front of the actual remaining members of the band, and how the spirit of Freddie had a message for him.

See what Rami has to say about playing a Rock Legend and then gear up for the film with Slacker’s Queen: The Count Up station!