Riz Ahmed

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

It's actually about sharing the most personal thing possible.

And that ends up being the most universal thing.

It's something actually I've never really talked about publicly before, Jay, but I did this film called Mogul Mowgli.

And it's about a guy who, an artist who suddenly loses his ability to walk, becomes tremendously ill overnight and is never sure if he's going to get his life back.

It was an exploration of lots of themes that I was interested in creatively, but what people don't know is that that basically really happened to me.

It was 2015 and I just started filming Star Wars.

I'd never done a studio movie before, never done a big franchise.

I never thought it would, that would be my path.

I was really happy doing Indies like Nightcrawler and Four Lions.

I'd suddenly got to be in this film set with stormtroopers and all these big things.

I was like, wow, is this, is it going to happen for me?

One week into filming that I started getting this weird pain in my legs.

And I thought, okay, maybe I've pulled something during one of the action scenes.

And I woke up one morning and I couldn't get out of bed.

And I couldn't walk.

Tried to go to a hospital.

They were like, they just kind of like pawned me off.

They weren't really sure what it was.

I went to the hospital back in my parents' neighborhood, the same hospital I was born in when I was visiting.

My parents said, let me go and get checked out there.

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