Riz Ahmed and James McAvoy, Live from TIFF

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

From our live show at the Toronto Film Festival, James McAvoy discusses the true story behind his directorial debut, California Schemin’. Then, Hamlet star Riz Ahmed joins us to explain why the Shakespeare drama still resonates. Recorded from the St. Regis Hotel in Toronto.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanee Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.
0:10.3	I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:13.5	The Toronto Film Festival kicked off last week, and today we're sharing the recording of the live show we hosted at the St. Regis Hotel on Friday.
0:22.2	Special guests James McAvoy and Riz Ahmed, both of whom had filmed screening at TIF, joined us to
0:27.8	discuss their new projects and answered some audience questions. While their new projects couldn't
0:32.7	be more different, each pushed these talented actors in new ways. McAoy made his directorial debut with California Skiyman,
0:40.1	and Ahmed took on the lead role in Hamlet,
0:42.7	but set the story in present-day London.
0:45.5	We also had a very special announcement to share,
0:48.8	my new Little Gold Men co-host.
0:51.1	Enjoy.
0:55.2	Hi, everybody. I'm Rebecca Ford from Vanity Fair. Thank you guys for joining us. I'm so excited
1:00.7	to be here and do this live. Are many of you listeners to the podcast? Yes. Oh, good. I'm glad
1:06.5	to have you. Obviously, we have two very special guests.
1:13.5	I'm very excited to have James McAfoy and Riz Ahmed coming.
1:15.4	James will be first and then Riz.
1:18.0	But first, I actually have a big announcement.
1:23.2	I'm going to welcome our new co-hosts for Little Goldman Live,
1:25.3	and you guys are the first to meet him.
1:28.9	He's the West Coast director of editorialial Projects at Vanity Fair,
1:31.9	and he's one of my favorite people to talk about movies with.
1:33.9	So please welcome John Ross.
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