Sound of Metal (Top inset: Darius Marder; bottom inset: Abraham Marder.)
Brothers Darius and Abraham Marder share how real-life hardships breathed life into Riz Ahmed s Ruben, Olivia Cooke s Lou and Paul Raci s Joe: It was always important that this story is universal. … It s really about something that is pervasively human.
The journey to write Amazon s Sound of Metaltook well over a decade. But for writer-director Darius Marder and his writing partner and brother, Abraham Marder, that length of time was necessary to tell a universal story that explores something that is pervasively human.
The film follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and his girlfriend, Lou (Olivia Cooke), who perform as the heavy-metal duo Blackgammon. Their hopes of making it big are sideswiped when Ruben begins to lose his hearing. Urged by his girlfriend to do so, Ruben enters rehab in a rural deaf community led by Vietnam War veteran and addict Joe (Paul Raci). The drummer struggles between accepting his h
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With his buzzy performance in Sound of Metal which required him to learn sign language and drumming plus a new wife and a booming company, the soft-spoken actor and rapper is having his loudest year yet.
Back in summer 2018, Riz Ahmed was preparing for a classroom scene for his latest film,
Sound of Metal, and his American Sign Language coach, Jeremy Lee Stone, was becoming increasingly annoyed. Stone had worked with the actor for the better part of a year, teaching him ASL for the role of Ruben, a rock drummer whose life begins to spiral out of control when he loses his hearing. This, however, was his first day on the Massachusetts set, and he hadn t seen his star pupil in months. Stone made a voices off sign, and Ahmed was expected to reciprocate with an identical sign. But Ahmed sat defiantly, refusing to sign, and it boiled my blood, Stone recalls. After all, the actor was well beyon