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Sound Of Metal star Riz Ahmed: Listening is something you do with your whole body
Having just won two Baftas, Sound Of Metal is now in the running for six Oscars. Georgia Humphreys hears about the making the critically acclaimed movie about a drummer who loses his hearing from stars Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci English actor Riz Ahmed in Sound Of Metal, the first Muslim to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Actor category 16 April, 2021 01:00
Paul Raci and Riz Ahmed in Sound Of Metal
FROM learning American Sign Language, to mastering playing the drums, Riz Ahmed knew his role in Sound Of Metal would be a challenge. But it was an “invitation to push myself out of my comfort zone that was really appealing to me at that time”, enthuses the 38-year-old Londoner.
April 16, 2021
In revealing their latest capsule collection a collaboration with Rammstein, Germany’s favorite industrial pyromaniac sons Paris-based fashion house Balenciaga reminded us this week of something that, had we looked a little closer and paid a little more attention, we should have already known.
That revelation? Fashion loves metal.
It might sound counterintuitive: Alternative music and its adjacent subcultures, particularly those at the fringes, have long rallied against the ideas and ideals of mainstream fashion, focusing misplaced vitriol on the very concepts of trends and lashing out against ideas of enforced normality.
And it’s an understandable mindset. To a lot of people, being alternative means being countercultural being the outsider, being the weirdo. No doubt about it: It
Riz Ahmed on what he learned from the deaf community
Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021
11:25 Listening is something you do with your whole body.
From learning American Sign Language, to mastering playing the drums, Riz Ahmed knew his role in Sound Of Metal would be a challenge. But it was an invitation to push myself out of my comfort zone that was really appealing to me at that time , enthuses the 38-year-old Londoner.
Now he has become the first Muslim to be nominated for the Academy Award’s Best Actor category, as a result of his incredible performance in the drama.
He plays Ruben, a musician in a heavy metal band whose life is sent into freefall after he loses his hearing. Considering how much of a wordsmith Ahmed is (he’s also a rapper and performs spoken word poems), portraying someone who has their communication almost completely taken away was understandably a big shift. But, he explains, that helped to inform the character, because Ruben also feels that he’s g