Riz Ahmed

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

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Riz Ahmed has spent the last decade pursuing dual careers in acting and hip-hop. His work has been political, controversial, funny, subtle — the sort of stuff critics love — and it's found huge audiences, despite all that controversy. He started in British independent movies like suicide-bomber comedy Four Lions, acted in a Star Wars movie, and now has made history as the first Muslim actor to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. As if all that wasn't enough, he's also a pretty good MC! When we talked in 2016, he had just released an album as part of the hip-hop duo Swet Shop Boys.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:21.3	My next guest is Riz Ahmed.
0:24.1	Riz has spent the last decade pursuing dual careers in acting and hip-hop.
0:29.1	His work has been controversial, funny, subtle, the sort of stuff critics love, and it's
0:33.8	found huge audiences despite all that.
0:36.7	He moved from British independent movies like the Suicide Bomber Comedy for Alliance
0:41.8	to a big supporting part in Jake Gyllenhaal's Night Crawler to full-fledged leading man
0:46.8	roles.
0:47.8	He recently picked up his first Oscar nomination for his role in Sound of Metal.
0:52.3	That made him the first Muslim ever nominated for Best Actor, by the way.
0:57.6	And also like I said, he is an MC and he's very good at it.
1:01.7	When I talked with him in 2016, he just released a new EP in collaboration with Heems of
1:06.8	Das Rassist.
1:08.2	They called the project The Sweat Chop Boys.
1:11.0	He's kept rapping since then.
1:12.8	Last year he released The Long Goodbye, an LP.
1:16.2	Here's a single from Mugambo.
1:18.2	Riz Ahmed, welcome to Bullseye.
1:44.2	It's great to have you on the show.
1:45.5	Thank you for having me, man.
1:47.8	Did you always MC?
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