Rami Malek is recounting his at-times complicated upbringing as an Egyptian-American growing up in Southern California.

During a recent interview, Rami Malek recalled an alleged encounter with LA police, in which the actor said he was racially profiled after a robbery.

Rami Malek recently shared an incident in which he was racially profiled and thrown against a police car in Los Angeles for a robbery he didn't commit. This was just one of many times in which he had to reconcile his Egyptian-American identity.

Rami Malek reflected on an alleged incident where he claims to have been racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department in a new profile for The Guardian.

The "Bohemian Rhapsody" star remembers thinking, "Okay, this is a very precarious situation. I may well be going to jail for something I’ve not done."

Rami Malek revealed 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,” the Oscar winner, 43, recalled in a new interview with The Guardian.

Rami Malek got real about what sounds like a pretty scary situation with the police. 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.

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.

Oscar winner Rami Malek revealed a previous encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department during which he was racially profiled and thrown onto a cop car as authorities tried to locate a robber. The actor,

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,

Bohemian Rhapsody’s oscar-winning actor Rami Malek recently opened up about a shocking incident from his past when he was arrested in Los Angeles by the police for a robbery to which he had no connection.