Riz Ahmed was hospitalised after his body “gave up on me” while filming 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Riz Ahmed feared he wouldn’t ‘get his life back’ during his ‘very intense’ hospitalisation
The 42-year-old actor has revealed he suffered a “very intense health-related experience” that made him fear he would “never get his life back” just as he landed the movie Sound of Metal.
Speaking on the Podcrushed podcast, he recounted: “Around the time of taking on Sound of Metal, I had a very intense health-related experience myself.
“I had to grapple with the grief but also the acceptance around that.”
He continued: “My body just, kind of, gave up on me.
“I was extremely exhausted, [and] I was hospitalized for a brief period. I just had to really try and retrain my strength. It was, like, building myself up from scratch. It was super scary and intense and quite prolonged, actually.”
He explained that he felt a “deep kind of grief and fear and terror” in the hospital.
Riz recalled: “For a minute, I was, like, ‘Am I ever going to get my life back?’ It really wasn’t clear. Something very silent and very intense had happened to me, and I wasn’t getting better quickly.”
However, he also felt “tremendous liberation and gratitude and acceptance”.
He explained: “Someone told me that cancer patients, once they’ve recovered, say, ‘You know what? I’m so glad I’m better, but I wish I could…
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