Riz Ahmed’s latest movie required a physical transformation unlike anything he’d ever undergone. In a new interview with IndieWire, the “Mogul Mowgli” star talked about losing 22 pounds for his role as Zed in the film.
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I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone,” he said. “I had a professional dietician working with me, but it was really gruelling and took me emotionally to an intense place, which probably informed the movie.
That was a big part of it, being in a place of weakness and fatigue and insatiable hunger.” In “Mogul Mowgli”, Ahmed plays a British-Pakistani rapper who is diagnosed with a
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