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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Fresh Air · Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait' · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

I guess I'll just say that working with him showed me

that your, your art can kind of only be as big as your heart is, you know, if that doesn't sound too corny, like he, you kind of have to have a capacity for such receptivity, humility, generosity, um, and empathy in order to kind of be an artist of that stature.

And at that level, it,

you know, just the human, yeah, just, just the kindness, the openness at 84 to step into this story.

I remember having to explain, you know, various kinds of British slang and Urdu swear words to him, you know, and it was nothing but just always engaged, always interested, always, shall we do it again?

Um, yeah, he was, he was just such a pro and such a gentleman.

And, um,

I'll really cherish that experience.

Yeah, it's really interesting.

I'm like many people felt like Shakespeare is the epitome of everything I'm on the outside of.

It doesn't belong to me.

It's stuffy.

It's elitist.

And I've got a government assisted place to a private school where I felt like an outsider for many different reasons.

And I was lucky enough to have an English teacher called Mr. Roseblade, who was a white Jewish middle-aged man from a different place in the UK.

I thought we had nothing in common, but he spoke fluent Punjabi.

And he...

brought me Hamlet and said, you know, this thing, this story, this character, it's at the heart of the establishment that you feel so alienated from in many ways.

But have a read of it.

You might recognize yourself in this character.

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