Rami Malek: I Hope Its Not Just This Year That Diversity is a Touchstone | TIME

Rami Malek plays the lead on Mr. Robot, one of TIME’s best shows of the year. His role, of an antisocial hacker, could be played by an actor of any race, and Malek, an Egyptian-American performer, sees his work as part of a larger continuum. “Was I too ethnic, or not ethnic enough?” he recalls thinking in the past. Malek hails Spike Lee’s recent honorary Oscar win as part of an attempt to redress a larger problem: “Why haven’t those films garnered the attention they deserve until today?” His work helps sol