The 2018 movie was an enormous success that grossed $911 million and won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for star Rami Malek. I will say that when the movie came out, we had all these new fans, and many of them were young, I felt this little pang of, ‘Oh, these are new fans that haven’t been to a show yet.’ I needed to prove myself again, which is good. Filling in for Freddie Mercury was a daunting task at first for Lambert, but he’s grown very comfortable with the job over the years. They began gigging together in 2012, and have stayed on the road consistently over the past decade.
Queen + Adam Lambert first played together on the 2009 finale of American Idol.
