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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Yeah, that is really the central idea of the show.
That's why the show is based around an audition.
It's not really a show about being an actor.
It's about this.
We always feel like we are all auditioning.
And that's because I think of social media.
to a considerable extent, the attention economy that we all exist in, that our value is about our visibility.
And so we're all constantly performing this version of ourselves that we think we should be, that we think people want us to be.
And that's true on your LinkedIn profile, on a Zoom call.
on your social media, just as it is for an actor, right?
Like here's the script.
I have to behave like a more desirable, put together, successful version of myself, but actually I can't make sense of this script of life and I'm having a panic attack.
And so how do you switch that off?
How do you kind of like stop performing?
I think it's really interesting because you could say, well, you know what?
It's about being really vulnerable.
It's about embracing your messiness.
You can also get into like performative vulnerability.
I think so much of it isn't about what you do.
It's about why you're doing it and how you're doing it.
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