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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And that ended up being a big part of the process, actually.
Well, I guess it struck me that this is a play in part about fatherhood and about the absent father.
And I didn't fully understand that until I myself became a father.
until I became actually an absent father in the sense that I was away for much of the day, awake before my kid was awake, home after my kid had gone to sleep.
And I started to understand that emotionally, but actually it was more the effect it had on me physically because...
you know, I'm waiting to, I want to play this role.
It means so much to me, this story, like 15 years of developing the script.
I want to get ready for these soliloquies.
And what would happen is me and Anil would turn up on set on like two hours sleep, one hour sleep, like 45 minutes sleep.
And the baby was a newborn.
Exactly.
And his child was sleep regressing.
And what I realized after the first I was just like, well, this is all just going to be a total failure now.
And then I realized that, hang on a minute, is exactly how Hamlet feels.
The word that is repeated most frequently in To Be or Not To Be is the word sleep.
This guy is not sleeping.
He needs to sleep.
He hasn't slept.
He's unravelling from that as well.
And it actually infused a kind of very raw, kind of quite vulnerable, quite frazzled kind of...
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