Riz Ahmed was hospitalized for a “prolonged” and “intense” illness during the filming of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The actor recently shared how the harrowing experience helped him 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,” Ahmed told Penn Badgley on the Podcrushed podcast.

“And basically, I was in the middle of filming Star Wars. My body just kind of, like, gave up on me,” he continued. “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 and quite prolonge

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