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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But I think what's really interesting actually is what's underneath that conversation is a personal relationship about, you know,
This is a conversation between my character Shah and his ex Yasmin, played by the amazing Ritu Arya from Umbrella Academy and Polite Society.
And really what's going on there, underneath the kind of socio-political think piece jousting, is two ex-lovers who are trying to jab at each other and push and pull and look for validation and get one up on each other because they're hurt.
because they both feel like the other has left them behind in some way.
And what was really important to me more than anything is that this show didn't exist in a conceptual space.
It's about characters.
It's about relationships.
You know, everyone has the one that got away.
And I was like, well, what if Sian, the one that got away, have their whole entire episode together?
Yeah, we try and flip the series the whole time.
And, you know, there's a spy thriller episode, there's a romantic comedy, there's a kind of surreal episode.
There's one that's almost like the Bond gala, you know, like James Bond turns up at the kind of, you know, black tie event and everything.
Hijinks ensues.
You know, we've got that.
We've got all these different flavors and we've got an Eid episode as well.
You know, I felt like we've got Christmas episodes, Thanksgiving episodes.
I want to have an Eid episode.
And so we very deliberately trying to layer in and thread.
multiple different genres because honestly i feel like my life takes place in different genres i feel like right now i'm here you know lucky me you know pretending to be all clever talking talking to you guys on fresh air and i'm gonna walk outside and slip on a banana peel and like fall flat on my face and suddenly i'm in a slapstick you know um and it's like i we wanted to have that multiplicity that tonal whiplash um
because honestly, that's just what I enjoy.
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