Photographed by David Needleman
by Tatiana Siegel
January 19, 2021, 6:00am PST
With his buzzy performance in Sound of Metal which required him to learn sign language and drumming plus a new wife and a booming company, the soft-spoken actor and rapper is having his loudest year yet.
Back in summer 2018, Riz Ahmed was preparing for a classroom scene for his latest film,
Sound of Metal, and his American Sign Language coach, Jeremy Lee Stone, was becoming increasingly annoyed. Stone had worked with the actor for the better part of a year, teaching him ASL for the role of Ruben, a rock drummer whose life begins to spiral out of control when he loses his hearing. This, however, was his first day on the Massachusetts set, and he hadn t seen his star pupil in months. Stone made a voices off sign, and Ahmed was expected to reciprocate with an identical sign. But Ahmed sat defiantly, refusing to sign, and it boiled my blood, Stone recalls. After all, the actor was well beyon
Photographed by David Needleman
by Tatiana Siegel
January 19, 2021, 6:00am PST
With his buzzy performance in Sound of Metal which required him to learn sign language and drumming plus a new wife and a booming company, the soft-spoken actor and rapper is having his loudest year yet.
Back in summer 2018, Riz Ahmed was preparing for a classroom scene for his latest film,
Sound of Metal, and his American Sign Language coach, Jeremy Lee Stone, was becoming increasingly annoyed. Stone had worked with the actor for the better part of a year, teaching him ASL for the role of Ruben, a rock drummer whose life begins to spiral out of control when he loses his hearing. This, however, was his first day on the Massachusetts set, and he hadn t seen his star pupil in months. Stone made a voices off sign, and Ahmed was expected to reciprocate with an identical sign. But Ahmed sat defiantly, refusing to sign, and it boiled my blood, Stone recalls. After all, the actor was well beyon
Inside Riz Ahmed s adorable love story
Actor spills beans on his author wife, Fatima Faheem Mirza, and how they met randomly at a coffee shop
Venom antagonist Riz Ahmed, earlier this week, revealed that he recently got married. The actor, at 38, confessed he hadn’t been married for “very long” on broadcaster Louis Theroux’s podcast
Grounded, reported
Evening Standard. He has now given more details on his private life during a recent appearance on
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
According to
The Independent, the
Reluctant Fundamentalist star met wife Fatima Faheem Mirza quite randomly.’ Ahmed revealed, She s an amazing novelist. We met so randomly while I was preparing for this role, for