In a new interview with the Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor — who is Egyptian — claimed that he was once racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department. “I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,

Oscar winner Rami Malek revealed an encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department, in which he was racially profiled and thrown on a cop car.

If you thought that Hollywood actor Rami Malek couldn’t surpass the level of being a chameleon by perfectly internalising music legend Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, then him being mistaken for a criminal will shake your belief.

In a recent discussion with The Guardian, Rami Malek detailed his experiences with racism as an Egyptian-American, pointing to one racial profiling incident where he found himself on the hood of a cop car.

Actor Rami Malek recalled a harrowing incident in which he said he was “thrown” on the hood of a cop car after being mistaken for a robbery suspect in California. In a new interview with The Guardian,

"I remember laughing on the cop car, thinking, 'Okay, this is a very precarious situation. I may well be going to jail for something I've not done,'" he recalls