Riz Ahmed remembers a ‘intense’ hospital while filming Rogue One

Rice ahmed at the hospital While filming 2016 Rogue One: Star Wars Story – Experience he later helped to connect with his commendable role in Metal noise.

“About the time of undertaking The sound of metal, I had a very intense health -related experience, ”said Ahmed, 42, on the episode on Thursday, August 28, of the” Podcrushed ” podcastReferring to his 2019 film about a drummer who loses his hearing. “I had to tackle the grief but also the reception around that.”

Ahmed remembered a podcast host Badgley’s head he is “in the middle of filming” Rogue one When he felt away internally.

“My body alone, kind of, stopped me,” he said. “I was exhausted, (and) I got my hospital for a short time. I really had to try to retrain my strength. It was, like, building myself from the beginning. It was extremely scary and intense and quite long, really.”

Ahmed continued, “For a minute, I was, like, ‘am I ever going to have my life back?’ It wasn’t really clear. not recovering quickly. “

While bound to the hospital, Ahmed said he felt “a deep kind of grief and fear and terror.”

“(I also felt) tremendous relief and gratitude and reception,” he noted. “Someone told me that cancer patients, After they recoverSay, ‘You know what? I’m so glad I’m better, but I’d like to bottle the thanksgiving a little like Zen I got when I lost everything. ‘I always think that when you bring you to your knees, you are halfway to pray. “

Ahmed added, “You are humble in that way when something is removed from you, you become even more seriously aware of everything you have.”

The British actor further noted, “at health level,” it was difficult not to have “control” for his body.

“You realize, like, you don’t control anything, man,” Ahmed reflected. “You don’t control one thing. You don’t even control your body. Then, in moments of trippy clarity in the dark, I realized (that) everything you have a gift. .. In a strange way, I never felt more grateful, more peace, peace, more content than when I felt I’m going to lose my whole life.”

After Ahmed Restoration, he read the script for Metal noise and knows that he needs to be part of the project.

“I was like, ‘I need to tell this story. I need to tell me a story (and) I need to make sense of this,’ he explained. “I think that’s one of the biggest privileges we get as storytellers.”