Rami Malek May Be Too Weird for Hollywood

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Rami Malek won his Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody in 2019, and ever since, he has idled in a series of increasingly unmemorable roles, from the less grizzled of the two detectives in the odd neo-noir The Little Things to a lesser Bond villain in No Time to Die and then onto a nefarious textile heir in Amsterdam and a small appearance as David L. Hill, one of the sprawling assemblage of physicists in Oppenheimer. This slow fade is...