Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne and Caitríona Balfe presented The Amateur, James Hawes’s espionage thriller, at its European premiere in Leicester Square.
The Amateur, a spy thriller from 20th Century Studios, held its European premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Monday 31 March 2025. Rami Malek, its star and one of its producers, led the cast.
Malek was born in Los Angeles in 1981 to Egyptian parents and studied theatre at the University of Evansville. Mr. Robot won him an Emmy in 2016, and he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
He played the Bond villain Safin in No Time to Die.
James Hawes, who directed the first series of Slow Horses, directed the film from Robert Littell’s 1981 novel. Malek plays Charlie Heller, a CIA cryptographer at Langley. When his wife is killed in a terrorist attack in London and the agency will not act, he tracks down the killers himself.
Laurence Fishburne, who plays the officer assigned to train him, and Caitríona Balfe joined Malek and Hawes at the premiere. Rachel Brosnahan plays his wife, and 20th Century Studios released the film in British cinemas on 11 April.