Hey guys, Willie Guys here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown podcast.

Thank you so much as always for clicking and listening.

I got a good one to share with you today.

I'm excited about this actor, Riz Ahmed.

You know him from movies like Night Crawler where he starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal,

Rogue One, a Star Wars story where he played Rebel Pilot Bodhi Rook.

You also know him perhaps for his role as the hardened prison inmate in the HBO series

The Night Of that one earned him the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor and by the way made

him the first Asian Muslim man to win that award.

We got together in Brooklyn to talk.

He's British born actor.

He was raised in a Pakistani household from where his family immigrated.

He went up through scholarship programs to British private schools, Oxford, onto Hollywood.

And the theme throughout as you'll hear is his experience as an outsider.

He's been the guy who felt like he was on the outside looking in and in many ways still

feels that way.

We also talk about his other gig, which is as a rapper in the hip-hop group The Sweatshop

Boys.

He goes by Riz MC, talks about his own experiences, especially as a Muslim man.

There's an amazing story in here about still being stopped and searched at airports, being

pulled aside for extra screening.

And he says by TSA agents who often ask him for selfies because they love his movies while

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