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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this is the moment for this story.
You know, it's a story, Hamlet is a story and it's a character who is grieving the illusion that the world was ever a fair place.
And I think that's how we're all feeling now.
We're all grieving and reeling from this realisation that, OK, I knew the world was unfair, but now the shameless, brazen unfairness of it is just kind of laid bare.
And it's about...
Grieving that illusion.
And it's also about feeling powerless in the face of how unfair it is.
And it's actually feeling kind of complicit in it and gaslit about it.
And that's what the play is about.
And I think that this is when it was meant to be told.
But for us creatively, the part that we were struggling to unlock is how do you not make this feel just like a Shakespeare performance and a poetry recital?
How do you not make this feel like a kind of self-congratulatory, like, actor wants to take on the classic?
And actually, that was the opposite of how we wanted it to feel.
And it really took us meeting Anil Kharia, the director.
It was after I collaborated with him on the short film, The Long Goodbye, for which he won an Oscar, that I was like, oh, I think we know how to do this.
We need a director who's worked a lot in rap music videos.
We need a director who has actually...
can render poetry in a very raw way and give us raw action in a very poetic way.
And that's what he did in that short film.
And that's what he does in his films.
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