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Rami Malek was all smiles as he shared a hug with talent manager Jessica Kovacevic while enjoying some downtime during the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Sunday.
The actor, 45, appeared happy and relaxed with Jessica as they wrapped their arms around each other while posing for a snap perched on a wall, before the two then headed off for a walk.
Rami and Jessica's closeness continued during their low-key stroll, with the Mr. Robot star draping his arm over Jessica's shoulders while she snaked an arm around his waist.
Taking a break from dressing to impress on the festival's red carpets, Rami cut a somewhat more casual figure, teaming a white shirt and black joggers with yellow trainers.
Meanwhile Jessica, who previously testified during Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's high-profile 2022 defamation trial, opted for a green top, black joggers and red trainers for the outing.
The Daily Mail has contacted Rami's representatives for comment.
Rami Malek was all smiles as he shared a hug with talent manager Jessica Kovacevic while enjoying some downtime during the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Sunday
The actor, 45, appeared happy and relaxed with Jessica as they wrapped their arms around each other while posing for a snap perched on a wall, before the two then headed off for a walk
It comes after Rami believed that it 'could be problematic' to play a gay man in his new drama The Man I Love, after portraying Freddie Mercury in an Oscar-winning role eight years earlier.
The actor got candid about his reservations to initially play the leading part in the movie at a press conference earlier this year.
Rami portrayed the late Queen frontman in the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Mercury passed away in 1991 at the age of 45 from complications amid his Aids battle.
In his latest project, which was directed by Ira Sachs, the star plays a man named Jimmy George in 1980s New York who is also facing a battle with Aids.
'When I read the script, I said, "I can't do this. There's too many similarities. It could be problematic,"' he admitted on Thursday, per Variety.
Despite having 'a certain sense of fear', Rami began to question what he had been 'afraid of'.
'Was it the similarities? Was it the singing? Was it what was going on in the period?' the star asked himself.
Rami revealed that after playing Mercury in the past, he had learned from the late singer to 'address the fear'.
Rami and Jessica's closeness continued during their low-key stroll, with the Mr. Robot star draping his arm over Jessica's shoulders while she snaked an arm around his waist
The actor expressed that he put trust in the director since he 'knew I was in extraordinary hands'.
'Not only to depend on him throughout the film, but to elevate it, to push myself, to force myself to race into that fire.'
And while Mercury and his character in The Man I Love have similarities, Rami explained that 'they were also worlds apart'.
He later reflected, 'I see them as two radically different figures altogether - especially as I have some more distance from it.'
Sachs also opened up about casting Rami in the role of entertainer Jimmy George.
'With a film like this, you needed someone who had a certain kind of mystery, a certain kind of potential for the unexpected, but also truly a star quality.'
The director continued: 'Because there is a whole universe which revolves around Jimmy and Rami in the film. A star is someone who emits light and also asks to be seen.'
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