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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I said, look, how did you like the show?
And you said, I feel like I am Shah.
You said that, Tanya.
You said, I feel like, damn, I'm that person.
If you don't mind me saying, so many people have been saying that.
And yes, there's a lot of me and Shah, but I think actually there's a lot of Shah in all of us, more than we like to admit.
And really, the show is about this feeling that life sometimes feels like one big audition.
You know, we all feel like we have to perform this version of ourselves that knows the script that, as you said, is commanding and decisive and desirable, the best public version of ourselves.
We're performing that.
But actually, the gap between that public self and the messy vulnerability of our private selves.
um, is often huge, you know, and that's true whether you're talking about how your life is actually going versus the Instagram post you just got up, put up, or that you saw of someone else, or like how professional and put together you're seeming on, on a zoom call when actually you're not wearing any pants, uh, you know, just out of the frame.
Uh, and, and so there's, uh, there's this, uh, just to answer your question, like, I feel like I'm playing, I'm trying to draw on a feeling that is personal to me, but I think it's personal to a lot of people.
Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
I mean, you know, the show isn't really about James Bond, but James Bond is a very important symbol because he is the ultimate symbol of success.
Yes, sure, as an actor he is, you know, the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
And yet it's also...
just, you know, for any of us.
He's this archetype of like, like I said, decisiveness, desirability, being in control, being unflappable, being invulnerable.
And so I wanted the character of James Bond to serve as this symbol of aspiration, this unattainable kind of self that Char is hunting down almost.
And in chasing this symbol, is he abandoning himself?
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