Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

cleveland Monday, November 23, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

cleveland Monday, November 23, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

wacotrib Monday, November 23, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

wacotrib Monday, November 23, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

independent-UK Monday, November 23, 2020 5:40:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

independent-UK Monday, November 23, 2020 5:40:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed : “We did actually use some inverted hearing aids that were placed into my ear canals, switched to a white noise setting, and what that meant is I couldn’t– I just wanted to know what it was like to not even be able to hear yourself speak, and it was very disorienting and very humbling and very visceral”

wsvn Friday, November 20, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed ( about Sign Language ) : “It was a seven-and-a-half month process, where I moved to New York and would do, you know, several hours every day of learning American Sign Language, and then similarly with the drums, it was every day with my teacher. Learning the drums is about learning to kind of let the drums play you. You know, you can’t think your way to playing that stuff. You kind of have to let it work through you”

wsvn Friday, November 20, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “It’s always encouraging and I don’t take it for granted at all,”

nbcnews Friday, November 20, 2020 1:59:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I’ve spent 15 or so years in this industry, and I’ve had to become good at wearing masks and making molds for myself. It’s what actors do,” “I grew up between cultures and classes, and I now know that I can contribute by taking that mask off and bringing my element and my truth, especially if it’s one that’s not seen or heard much before”

nbcnews Friday, November 20, 2020 1:59:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “As someone who plays a lot with words — spoken word and poetry and other stuff — it really forced me to step out of my comfort zone,”

nytimes Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:06:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed added : “I need to watch more. I feel like we are taught to revere western artists but are ignorant of our own artistic heritage. That’s also Zed’s journey in the film,”

news18 Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:27:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "It's really about that identity crisis playing itself out on a molecular level,"

thenational Monday, October 12, 2020 12:35:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "Zed is a musician who wants to leave behind this great artistic legacy, but he hasn't really understood what legacy he has inherited,"

thenational Monday, October 12, 2020 12:35:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “As a result of these circumstances, we have been forced to make some very difficult decisions, and it is with great sadness that I am writing to advise you that CIK will close after the first term of the new academic year, with 31 December 2020 as a tentative closure date,”

observer-ug Friday, August 28, 2020 12:07:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “Alternatively, we are making available the option of enrolling at Hillcrest International Schools, Nairobi, Kenya, either at the beginning of term 1 in September 2020 through remote learning or for term 2 in January 2021 through remote learning or physical attendance at the school premises. Years 7 to 13 students will be offered boarding options when the physical school premises reopen in Kenya; this is expected to be at the start of term 2 in January 2021,”

ChimpsReport Tuesday, August 25, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed adds ( about British ) : “Whenever I see historic dramas about British Asians, it’s always ‘poor Asians’ in the 1970s being attacked by the National Front. The only story we’re allowed to have is: ‘I’m so confused about my identity.’ Then you’ve got films like and The Big Sick , stories about a brown person who needs to marry a white person in order to be happy. Ertuğrul is the Muslim world’s Black Panther,” “It’s not because a Muslim audience is brainwashed by Islamic rhetoric. It’s because we want to see brown people on TV who are portrayed in a good light and are proud of their culture”

guardian Wednesday, August 12, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed explained : "I went a bit overboard, a bit over the top, I got a bit obsessive about my work. "

southernminn Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:13:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “This moment is forcing people to take their masks off,”

thedailybeast Monday, April 27, 2020 7:44:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed wrote : “Anyone else do a #Stayhome haircut that got outta hand?”

nytimes Wednesday, April 15, 2020 5:23:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed wrote : “Anyone else do a #Stayhome haircut that got outta hand?”

nytimes Monday, April 13, 2020 1:08:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed tells : “Only in Pakistan the military police are like, ‘You know what, he’s got a nice flow, let’s let him go man,’”

standard Friday, March 20, 2020 6:18:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed tells : “Only in Pakistan the military police are like, ‘You know what, he’s got a nice flow, let’s let him go man,’”

standard Friday, March 20, 2020 5:39:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "Britain's broken up with me,"

albawaba-en Monday, March 16, 2020 9:14:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed replies : "I don't know if we've really fully broken up. I just know that it's complicated," "A lot of people are feeling like the terms of the relationship are changing, or that we're somehow reneging on the vows that we exchanged. Like any relationship, I don't know if there's a specific moment where things all fell apart, or if there's an accumulation of small breaches of trust that get you to this point"

bbc Friday, March 6, 2020 6:33:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I can’t wait to come to Manchester and share the world premiere of this live experience,” “It takes us on a journey through our past to the current crossroads we face as a multicultural society”

dailytimesPK Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:07:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “I can’t wait to come to Manchester and share the world premiere of this live experience,”

tribune Saturday, February 15, 2020 3:19:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said ( about British ) : “It’s a saga about a British Pakistani family over 40 of the most eventful years of recent British history, from 1979 to 2019,”

tribune Friday, September 13, 2019 11:52:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "Lives are quite literally at stake here," "The representation of Muslims on screen affects the policies that get enacted, the people that get killed, the countries that get invaded"

CBC Saturday, July 27, 2019 11:11:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said ( about British ) : “When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I’m British-Pakistani,”

foxnews Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “Art can provoke feeling but its impact has limitations in the face of legal and systemic oppression,”

tribune Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “The efforts of individual artists or storytellers may be bold, they may be progressive, they may act as beacons of hope for other people, but in the face of institutional prejudice and institutionalised obstacles, systemic obstacles, our efforts can sometime still fall flat,”

tribune Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “I think what we’re starting to see is more awareness around how beneficial it can be to tell a diverse range of stories and to tell them in a way that’s authentic,”

tribune Friday, October 27, 2017 10:48:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "Every time you see yourself in a magazine, on a billboard, TV, film — it's a message that you matter, you're part of the national story, that you're valued,"

abc-au Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:13:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : “I’ll wake up then I’ll press ‘snooze,'”

680news Sunday, January 8, 2017 3:55:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : “I’ll wake up then I’ll press ‘snooze,'”

seattletimes Sunday, January 8, 2017 1:45:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : "I'll wake up then I'll press 'snooze,'"

nzherald Sunday, January 8, 2017 12:42:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "It’s a cross-cultural project in a lot of ways," "He’s Indian from New York, I’m Pakistani from London, so a lot of things flowed naturally from there"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed admits : "Me and Tom can be a bit perfectionist,"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "He’s just heard the album this weekend," "I got a text saying that apparently he loves it"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "The theme that emerges is aspiration,"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "if the schedule works, we’d love to go to India and Pakistan"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “He’s not like C-3PO who is super scared and following orders, he’s the opposite. K-2SO is an enforcer droid and no one can tell him anything,”

antiguaobserver Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:56:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "He's not like C-3PO who is super scared and following orders, he's the opposite. K-2SO is an enforcer droid and no one can tell him anything,"

reuters Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:25:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

cleveland Monday, November 23, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

cleveland Monday, November 23, 2020 10:00:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

wacotrib Monday, November 23, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

wacotrib Monday, November 23, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “We wanted to do something that was all in,” “We just wanted to really connect to how overwhelming and invigorating and terrifying it can be to kind of throw yourself into the deep end of a creative endeavor”

independent-UK Monday, November 23, 2020 5:40:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I liked the idea of spending seven months learning the drums and sign language and then doing a four week shoot where you only get two takes of anything because we’re shooting on film,”

independent-UK Monday, November 23, 2020 5:40:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed : “We did actually use some inverted hearing aids that were placed into my ear canals, switched to a white noise setting, and what that meant is I couldn’t– I just wanted to know what it was like to not even be able to hear yourself speak, and it was very disorienting and very humbling and very visceral”

wsvn Friday, November 20, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed ( about Sign Language ) : “It was a seven-and-a-half month process, where I moved to New York and would do, you know, several hours every day of learning American Sign Language, and then similarly with the drums, it was every day with my teacher. Learning the drums is about learning to kind of let the drums play you. You know, you can’t think your way to playing that stuff. You kind of have to let it work through you”

wsvn Friday, November 20, 2020 5:06:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “It’s always encouraging and I don’t take it for granted at all,”

nbcnews Friday, November 20, 2020 1:59:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I’ve spent 15 or so years in this industry, and I’ve had to become good at wearing masks and making molds for myself. It’s what actors do,” “I grew up between cultures and classes, and I now know that I can contribute by taking that mask off and bringing my element and my truth, especially if it’s one that’s not seen or heard much before”

nbcnews Friday, November 20, 2020 1:59:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “As someone who plays a lot with words — spoken word and poetry and other stuff — it really forced me to step out of my comfort zone,”

nytimes Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:06:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed added : “I need to watch more. I feel like we are taught to revere western artists but are ignorant of our own artistic heritage. That’s also Zed’s journey in the film,”

news18 Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:27:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "It's really about that identity crisis playing itself out on a molecular level,"

thenational Monday, October 12, 2020 12:35:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "Zed is a musician who wants to leave behind this great artistic legacy, but he hasn't really understood what legacy he has inherited,"

thenational Monday, October 12, 2020 12:35:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “As a result of these circumstances, we have been forced to make some very difficult decisions, and it is with great sadness that I am writing to advise you that CIK will close after the first term of the new academic year, with 31 December 2020 as a tentative closure date,”

observer-ug Friday, August 28, 2020 12:07:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “Alternatively, we are making available the option of enrolling at Hillcrest International Schools, Nairobi, Kenya, either at the beginning of term 1 in September 2020 through remote learning or for term 2 in January 2021 through remote learning or physical attendance at the school premises. Years 7 to 13 students will be offered boarding options when the physical school premises reopen in Kenya; this is expected to be at the start of term 2 in January 2021,”

ChimpsReport Tuesday, August 25, 2020 8:52:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed adds ( about British ) : “Whenever I see historic dramas about British Asians, it’s always ‘poor Asians’ in the 1970s being attacked by the National Front. The only story we’re allowed to have is: ‘I’m so confused about my identity.’ Then you’ve got films like and The Big Sick , stories about a brown person who needs to marry a white person in order to be happy. Ertuğrul is the Muslim world’s Black Panther,” “It’s not because a Muslim audience is brainwashed by Islamic rhetoric. It’s because we want to see brown people on TV who are portrayed in a good light and are proud of their culture”

guardian Wednesday, August 12, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed explained : "I went a bit overboard, a bit over the top, I got a bit obsessive about my work. "

southernminn Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:13:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “This moment is forcing people to take their masks off,”

thedailybeast Monday, April 27, 2020 7:44:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed wrote : “Anyone else do a #Stayhome haircut that got outta hand?”

nytimes Wednesday, April 15, 2020 5:23:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed wrote : “Anyone else do a #Stayhome haircut that got outta hand?”

nytimes Monday, April 13, 2020 1:08:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed tells : “Only in Pakistan the military police are like, ‘You know what, he’s got a nice flow, let’s let him go man,’”

standard Friday, March 20, 2020 6:18:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed tells : “Only in Pakistan the military police are like, ‘You know what, he’s got a nice flow, let’s let him go man,’”

standard Friday, March 20, 2020 5:39:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "Britain's broken up with me,"

albawaba-en Monday, March 16, 2020 9:14:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed replies : "I don't know if we've really fully broken up. I just know that it's complicated," "A lot of people are feeling like the terms of the relationship are changing, or that we're somehow reneging on the vows that we exchanged. Like any relationship, I don't know if there's a specific moment where things all fell apart, or if there's an accumulation of small breaches of trust that get you to this point"

bbc Friday, March 6, 2020 6:33:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “I can’t wait to come to Manchester and share the world premiere of this live experience,” “It takes us on a journey through our past to the current crossroads we face as a multicultural society”

dailytimesPK Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:07:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “I can’t wait to come to Manchester and share the world premiere of this live experience,”

tribune Saturday, February 15, 2020 3:19:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said ( about British ) : “It’s a saga about a British Pakistani family over 40 of the most eventful years of recent British history, from 1979 to 2019,”

tribune Friday, September 13, 2019 11:52:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "Lives are quite literally at stake here," "The representation of Muslims on screen affects the policies that get enacted, the people that get killed, the countries that get invaded"

CBC Saturday, July 27, 2019 11:11:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said ( about British ) : “When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I’m British-Pakistani,”

foxnews Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “Art can provoke feeling but its impact has limitations in the face of legal and systemic oppression,”

tribune Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “The efforts of individual artists or storytellers may be bold, they may be progressive, they may act as beacons of hope for other people, but in the face of institutional prejudice and institutionalised obstacles, systemic obstacles, our efforts can sometime still fall flat,”

tribune Thursday, June 27, 2019 2:07:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed told : “I think what we’re starting to see is more awareness around how beneficial it can be to tell a diverse range of stories and to tell them in a way that’s authentic,”

tribune Friday, October 27, 2017 10:48:00 AM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "Every time you see yourself in a magazine, on a billboard, TV, film — it's a message that you matter, you're part of the national story, that you're valued,"

abc-au Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:13:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : “I’ll wake up then I’ll press ‘snooze,'”

680news Sunday, January 8, 2017 3:55:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : “I’ll wake up then I’ll press ‘snooze,'”

seattletimes Sunday, January 8, 2017 1:45:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed noted : "I'll wake up then I'll press 'snooze,'"

nzherald Sunday, January 8, 2017 12:42:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "It’s a cross-cultural project in a lot of ways," "He’s Indian from New York, I’m Pakistani from London, so a lot of things flowed naturally from there"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed admits : "Me and Tom can be a bit perfectionist,"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "He’s just heard the album this weekend," "I got a text saying that apparently he loves it"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "The theme that emerges is aspiration,"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed says : "if the schedule works, we’d love to go to India and Pakistan"

thenational Saturday, December 31, 2016 2:15:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : “He’s not like C-3PO who is super scared and following orders, he’s the opposite. K-2SO is an enforcer droid and no one can tell him anything,”

antiguaobserver Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:56:00 PM EAT

Riz Ahmed said : "He's not like C-3PO who is super scared and following orders, he's the opposite. K-2SO is an enforcer droid and no one can tell him anything,"

reuters Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:25:00 AM EAT