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Riz Ahmed has unveiled his new bride.<\/p>\n
The actor, who revealed this week that he secretly got married, confirmed on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d that he wed novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza.<\/p>\n
Ahmed, 38, clarified that he wasn\u2019t trying to keep his marriage a secret.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a weird one, isn\u2019t it? I guess because we live in a social media age if you don\u2019t, like, get on the megaphone about stuff it\u2019s like, it\u2019s a secret \u2014 but I never know how much is oversharing,\u201d he told Fallon. \u201cLike, I\u2019m into matcha lattes, but that\u2019s just never come up. I\u2019m not a secret matcha latte drinker.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair initially met \u201cso randomly\u201d in a New York cafe while he was prepping for his film \u201cSound of Metal,\u201d where he plays a heavy metal drummer who starts to lose his hearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just both sat down at the same table in a cafe where we both turned up to write,\u201d he said. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said meeting Mirza at that time made the movie that much more special for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I met Fatima for the first time and met so many people in the deaf community that have become friends. And there\u2019s just something about this whole period around this film that was kind of life-changing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As for what their secret wedding looked like, Ahmed said they kept things small because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, kept it super intimate, and socially distanced. There was just like, hardly anyone there really,\u201d he said. \u201cWe did it in a backyard, which is nice in lots of ways. And I think the nicest thing about it was you didn\u2019t have 500 aunties hanging around you, pinching your cheeks. No disrespect to the aunties.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued jokingly, \u201cAsian weddings are big. You always got these people crawling out the woodworks, who I think are kind of probably imposters. They just smell the kebabs on the street and just wander in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahmed initially broke the news of his wedding on the Jan. 11 episode of Louis Theroux\u2019s \u201cGrounded\u201d podcast, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever mentioned it in an interview. So, congratulations on this incredibly exciting scoop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mirza is known for her novel \u201cA Place for Us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Riz Ahmed has unveiled his new bride. The actor, who revealed this week that he secretly got married, confirmed on Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d that he wed novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza. Ahmed, 38, clarified that he wasn\u2019t trying to keep his marriage a secret. \u201cIt\u2019s a weird one, isn\u2019t it? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":65304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11185],"tags":[66793],"yoast_head":"\n