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Today on Happy Sad Confused, Riz Ahmed delivers another stellar performance in sound of metal.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrowitz.

Welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused.

Another first timer this week, guys guys and one of the best actors out there.

If you've been paying attention the last few years, you know what a chameleon rhythm it is,

how he's basically capable of anything, whether it's character roles, whether it's

leading man performances, he can do it all, and he is back again with maybe his finest performance

yet in the critically acclaimed and justifiably so new film Sound of Metal.

This one special guys this is one of my favorite films of the last year. I first saw it

almost like a year and a half ago at the Toronto Film Festival.

You never know what you're going to get in these kind of like unknown movies that pop up there and I was so blown away and pleasantly surprised.

A bit of a character study kind of a film. This is about a like a heavy like metal drummer by the name of Rubin. He's been doing with addiction issues and suddenly finds that he is dealing with traumatic hearing loss.

And it is his journey of acceptance and self-discovery

and just changing his life and also figuring out

what's important in his life.

That all makes it sound much more medicinal that it is.

It's actually super entertaining and just filled with fantastic performances

led by Riz. A great opportunity for him and he really

made the most of it. The real that he's on the podcast today, Riz is a very

thoughtful, smart, funny guy. You've seen him in films like Nightcrawler

venom the night of that great mini series on HBO and before that was was killing

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