The 38-year-old British actor, who has also starred in Nightcrawler, Four Lions, and Venom, shared that he recently got married in an appearance on the Grounded podcast in January 2021.
The news shocked fans of the actor because he had not previously discussed being in a relationship.
Riz Ahmed married Fatima Farheen Mirza in 2020 after meeting at a coffee shop.
Riz revealed that he had joined the likes of Emma Stone, Jonathan Van Ness, Nick Kroll, and Scarlett Johansson by having an under-the-radar quarantine wedding. But, he assured The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon that he wasn’t intentionally hiding his marriage from the public.
“It’s a weird one, isn’t it? I guess because we live in a social media age if you don’t, like, get on the megaphone about stuff it’s like, it’s a secret — but I never know how much is oversharing… It doesn’t come up,” he joked about the idea of oversharing. “You’re not sure what really to offer.”
The actor added that the COVID-19 pandemic did affect his wedding plans and that he and Fatima chose to keep their big day “super intimate” and “socially distanced” in the backyard.
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The actor went on the late-night talk show to promote his Amazon Prime movie, Sound of Metal. The creation of the film is also what led him to meet his bride in the first place.
“We met so randomly while, actually, I was preparing for this role in Sound of Metal when I was in New York,” the actor said. “We just both sat down at the same table in a cafe where we both turned up to write.”
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He said that the two began to talk when they needed to charge their computers.
“We were both jostling over the same laptop plug point, like a very modern way of meeting, and we struck up a friendship and then reconnected down the line,” he added. “But, it’s weirdly like one of the many things about preparing for this role that was so special. It brought a lot of goodness into my life.”