Riz Ahmed
speaker
1,209 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Riz Ahmed’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And for me, in that space between those two versions of yourself, that space really started opening up for me a lot.
about 10 years ago, when I started to become more known in America, doing some work here and doing things like Star Wars, that is when it just felt so at odds, you know, the perception and the reality couldn't be more different.
And that's something that's stressful.
absurd but also kind of funny and so I wanted to kind of liberate myself of that shame hopefully invite other people to liberate themselves of that shame as well by by actually trying to collapse that distance between the public and private self so I'm always an actor what if I make a show that's
taking all my vulnerabilities and neuroses and laugh about them and put them out there.
And there's so much in the show that's really directly from my upbringing.
There's that skinhead moment, a version of it.
I had a panic attack once when I was supporting Wu-Tang Clan in concert at Kentish Town Forum in North London.
We refilmed me having a panic attack at Kentish Town Forum.
I said, I want to do the same place.
I want to burst out into the same alleyway and have the same panic attack there.
Even, you know, the British security services, MI5 and MI6, recruiting my character.
They've tried to do that with me.
I can't believe that.
After I became more known as an actor, they reached out several times saying, do you want to help us with messaging?
Do you want to sit down?
I was like, no, I'm an artist.
I'm not getting involved, mate.
No, thank you.
But I just tried to take all these kind of
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