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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Texture, I think, to my performance that I could never have planned or controlled.
You know, I think you can kind of feel a lot of that exhausted kind of disarray in the performance.
And honestly, that's the version of Hamlet I'm interested in is not the version...
who is the smartest guy in the room, spouting, commanding poetry.
The version of Hamlet I'm interested in is the most stressed, vulnerable and under pressure guy in the room, who continues to speak because the words are failing him.
He can't find the right words.
Yeah, very, very much so.
Very much so.
Here's my take on it.
A lot of people find a block with Shakespeare because they're
find it difficult to understand what the words mean.
I totally get it.
I often feel the same way.
Here's the thing.
People in Shakespeare's day themselves did not speak like that.
They didn't say that.
Shakespeare made up like between three and five thousand new words.
I think there's some estimates.
The word eyeball
Is a word that he made up.
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