Welcome to the Riz-aissance.
“But I emailed him and we met.
“I mean, it’s pretty dark,” he says, shrugging.
Riz Ahmed and Lucian-River Chauhan in ‘Encounter’.Richard Foreman / © 2021 Amazon Content Services LLC
“And I’m wearing a cap and glasses.
People generally mind their own business.”
That anonymity might get harder to hold on to in the next few months.
Riz Ahmed and Lucian-River Chauhan in ‘Encounter’.Richard Foreman / © 2021 Amazon Content Services LLC
“But the heart of it is always this emotional father-son story.”
There was unrest in the streets, the skies of California were literally on fire likeBlade Runner.
The animation, too, is a marvel, somehow more intimate and engrossing than even film would be.
‘Flee’ documentary.NEON
“We’re not used to seeing a gay love story told in this world.
It’s such an incredible intersection of bold firsts.
It’s purely led by truth, and it’s told with such magic.”
In the top 200 films the last few years, they’re 1.6 percent of speaking characters.
Almost three-quarters of the time, they’re either victims or perpetrators of violence.
And this costs lives, frankly, in hate crimes and in discriminatory legislation.”
Marvel, Bisha K.Ali.
But I feel grateful, in a way, that it didn’t come out of the gate.
“When something’s that special, the experience of it is its own reward.
I know that sounds corny, but it’s the truth.
It would’ve been fantastic for people to see it more in theaters.
You’re not the right accent, you’re not the right shape, color, size.
So you get into the habit of wearing masks to get through your day.
It should be about taking them off.”
A version of this story appears inEntertainment Weekly’s December issue, on newsstands now andavailable to order here.
