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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Because people tend to wear their heart in their sleeves a lot more.
Yeah, but the technology has probably made it a little bit easier because people are a bit more stupid.
When you look at what's happening in the US right now and the current administration and how they, how do I say this, how they run things, I'm presuming there are intelligence agents buckled with laughter getting access to information from the likes of Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller and others.
Have you seen what they've done now?
Could that possibly be true?
Yeah, you'd need a second ear on that, I would imagine, for a lot of things.
Dr. Dan Lomas, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham.
Thank you so much for having me back.
Do you know who you are?
You're a failure.
Yeah, I mean, so much of the show is taken from my own experience, you know.
I'm that guy who you were mentioning the night of.
I remember waking up in the middle of the night two years after I rapped on the night of and going to the mirror and redoing scenes that the whole world had already seen.
I'd already been handed awards for this performance.
I'm like, no, I got it, I got it.
got to get it right and the inner critic is such a kind of big part of this show and and you know honestly like yes the show is drawn from those experiences but it's not about being an actor it's about as you said um being caught up in a chase sequence where you're chasing acceptance and running away from your own inner critic and so we felt early on in the show you needed to see just how
mean shah's inner voice can be about him and and i just wanted to be kind of like vulnerable and open about that i mean i've i've definitely you know i've done exactly that like i said going to the mirror redoing the scene saying you're useless you're crap you know what you're doing and i feel like that's something that is very very relatable outside of auditioning or being an actor or anything like that it's we're often our own worst critics
Yeah.
Well, I want to deal with the first part of what you said first, which is Isriz playing a character, playing himself.
And if you don't mind, I want to say something that you said to me just before we started recording the interview.
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