Riz Ahmed is one of my favourite actors. In his new film he plays a drummer/ recovering drug addict who goes deaf and has to change his life. He immersed himself in the role and, over the course of filming, met and married his wife.
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“This whole experience taught me the true meaning of the word listening - it's not just something you do with your ears," says Ahmed.
"I think [ASL instructor] Jeremy [Lee Stone] and the deaf community taught me what listening means: it means you listen with your whole body, with your attention, your energy.
"In the same way that I think they taught me the true meaning of communication is something that doesn't just happen here [in the ears]."