Riz Ahmed revealed he was hospitalized for an “intense” and “prolonged” illness amid filming for Rogue One : A Star Wars Story , the reality of which eventually led him to connect with the script for 2019’s Sound of Metal .

“Around the time of taking on Sound of Metal , I had had a very intense kind of health-related experience myself, where I had to grapple with the grief but also the acceptance around that,” he said in a new interview on Penn Badgley’s co-hosted Podcrushed podcast. “And basically, I was in the middle of filming Star Wars , and my body just kind of, like, gave up on me. I was extremely exhausted, I was hospitalized for a brief period. I had to really try to recreate my strength. It was like building myself up from scratch. It was super scary and intense an

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