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Oscar hopeful's amazing rags to riches tale after being so poor he almost quit showbiz

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20.03.2021 - 18:47

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Actor Riz Ahmed is up for an Oscar for playing a deaf drummer... yet he was once so skint he almost quit showbiz. The Brit nearly pulled out of his audition for 2014 breakthrough movie Nightcrawler because he couldn’t afford the plane fare.

Riz, nominated for best actor for Sound Of Metal, said: “They asked me to fly to fly to L.A. I was like, ‘I can’t fly to L.A.

I’m broke’. “But I had to fly to L.A. – and just bet on myself. I spent that whole flight just running lines. I remember landing and seeing Jake Gyllenhaal in the room and going, ‘Whoa’. “It came when I thought I’d reached the end of the road.

I wasn’t really making any money, being offered that next tier of roles. “I just felt earning a couple of grand for a movie?

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