Riz Ahmed

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1,209 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Riz Ahmed: How to Silence Your Inner Critic (And Build REAL Self Worth) · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And I guess it's like less about finding yourself means being in one lane.

Yeah.

I don't believe in that.

Yeah.

I think that having all these different sides to who we are is human and universal and healthy in a way.

Over the last 10 years or so, I kind of really went on this journey of trying to make work from a more personal place.

When I came into this

game I felt like for some reason I had to justify it beyond just myself enjoying it now I'm like actually my joy is valid you know joy and if other people take joy from my work that's valid as well but I always felt like it's got to be a have a greater purpose right and for me that was about trying to stretch culture

This idea of one person at a time, one film screening, one performance at a time, opening people's hearts and minds to an experience that they didn't think they could relate to, but actually, wow, I recognize myself in it.

It's like, I was a big fan of watching The Crown.

And you know, when you're watching The Crown, you're suddenly like, I'm the Queen of England.

that's me, I'm her.

I totally get, you know, how it's this amazing body swap that story can achieve, right?

And so to try and open people's hearts and minds to realizing that we're all the same, we're all one and to stretch culture in that way.

And before I used to think, okay, that means me popping up in all these roles that are as different as possible to me, change people's ideas about who can play that role, who can be in a Star Wars movie and all this kind of stuff.

And now more and more, I think like,

I want to share the messy contradiction of myself.

I used to think acting was about putting on the mask.

Now I think it's about taking it off.

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