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Rami Malek worked hard to land a role in the upcoming drama “Nuremberg.” “I put myself out there, and I’m sure there were a number of other actors up for the role, but I really tracked it down and I fought for it,” he told Page Six exclusively at the Cinema Society screening of the film earlier this week. The “Bohemian Rhapsody” star shared that being hungry for the role brought him back to his days as a struggling actor. “[It] reminded me of my youth when the small jobs would come in and you were just so elated and just to have that emotion…that it hadn’t died was enough to tell me, ‘Wow, it’s a magical art form that we get to be a part of’ and [it’s] exceptionally profound when you get a story like this.” The historical drama is based on the 2013 book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.” In it, Malek plays Douglas Kelley, a psychiatrist who was tasked with determining if Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) is legally sane to stand trial at the Nuremberg trials. Göring was found guilty of all charges, including crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging. The night before he was to be hanged, he died by suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule. The Oscar winner said that he didn’t know much about the history, in which the WWII allies put Nazi leaders, propagandists and business leaders on trial. “I think I knew as much as anybody did who studied history,” he explained, but was “immediately taken” once he read the book on which the film is based. “I knew it would make a fascinating film,” he said. Other attendees at the MoMA screening and party at The Lobster Club included the film’s other stars, Michael Shannon and John Slattery, along with Candice Bergen, John Benjamin Hickey, Judd Hirsch and Sony Pictures Classics chieftains Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.
