Olivia Cooke found it amazing to work alongside Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal .
The 27-year-old actress plays Lou Berger in the drama flick, which sees her alter ego s drummer boyfriend Ruben Stone (Ahmed) struggling to cope with losing his hearing and was blown away by her co-star s performance, which saw him nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.
Olivia said: As an actress, you sometimes have to weigh up whether you want to take the girlfriend role but to be in a film like Sound of Metal with Riz that explores deafness in a way I hadn t seen before was amazing.
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With the 93rd Academy Awards airing this Sunday, April 25, I wanted to take this opportunity to share my favorites among this year’s nominees. I’m going to be giving my picks for eight major categories: the four categories for acting, the two for screenplay, Best Director, and, of course, Best Picture. In the interest of keeping things positive, I’ll also share an additional nominee I think should’ve been added to each category.
Starting things off, the nominees for Best Actress in a supporting role are: Maria Bakalova as Tutar Sagdiyev in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Glenn Close as Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance in “Hillbilly Elegy,” Olivia Colman as Anne in “The Father,” Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies in “Mank,” and Youn Yuh-jung as Soon-ja in “Minari.”
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Sound Of Metal Review: Riz Ahmed Is Brilliant In Captivating Character Study
Sound Of Metal Review: Riz Ahmed Is Brilliant In Captivating Character Study
Sound Of Metal Review: The conviction with which Riz Ahmed plays the drums and uses American Sign Language belies the fact that he had to learn both in order to play the role.
Sound Of Metal: Riz Ahmed in a still from the film. (courtesy: rizahmed)
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, Mathieu Amalric, Domenico Toledo, Chris Perfetti
Director: Darius Marder
Rating: Four stars ( out of 5)
A self-sustaining bubble made up of sound and its reverberations contains the entire world of heavy metal drummer Ruben Stone, fleshed out absolutely brilliantly by Riz Ahmed. All of a sudden, all that remains is the bubble. Sound goes out of the percussionist s life. He begins to lose his hearing. Stillness threatens to engulf him. And thereby begin the struggles of the newly-deaf protagonist of the marvellously well ch