Rami Malek said he was “thrown” on a cop car when police thought he robbed a liquor store.
“I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,” the Oscar winner, 43, recalled in a new interview with
“They said the was of Latin descent and, ‘You fit the description,'” said Malek. “I remember how hot that engine was, they must have been racing over there and it was almost burning my hands.”He continued, “My friend, who was Caucasian, was clever enough to go, ‘Actually, sir, he’s Egyptian. Not Latin.’ I remember laughing on the cop car, thinking, ‘OK, this is a very precarious situation. I may well be going to jail for something I’ve not done.
“And, yeah, at times I do feel a bit sad that had to make this extraordinary pilgrimage to America to investigate the possibilities,” Malek continued. “And now dealing with, perhaps, a certain sense of repression that they may not have known had they not moved.
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