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7 min read actor Riz Ahmed learned some remarkable things when preparaing for his Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal
At 38, Riz Ahmed is an accomplished actor, admired rapper, committed activist â and a metric. In 2018, inspired by Ahmedâs often colour-blind roles, academics Dr Sadia Habib and Shaf Choudry constructed the Riz Test, the Muslim equivalent of the Bechdel test.
Ahmed was not involved at the conceptual level of the procedure, which ticks such boxes as âsuperstitiousâ, âirrationally angryâ and âperpetrator of terrorismâ, but the test does echo sentiments expressed by the British-Pakistani star in his essay for The Good Immigrant, a 2016 collection of BAME writings.