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Riz Ahmed’s latest role is out of this world.
The Academy Award nominee, 38, is on a mission to save his family from an extraterrestrial threat in the firstteaserfor his new Amazon Prime filmEncounter, premiering December 10.
“I want you to count to 600 and I’ll be back,” Ahmed’s character Malik Kahn tells one of his sons, as he heads into a battle zone in the desert with an assault rifle.
“You ever heard ofThe Three Musketeers? Toughest soldiers there ever was. They could survive everything because they stuck together,” he tells his sons in a voiceover. “Now you tell me, if we don’t stick together, we can’t get through anything? I know we can.”
The sci-fi film “follows two young brothers who go on the run with their father, a decorated Marine (Ahmed), who is trying to protect them from an unhuman threat. As the journey takes them in increasingly dangerous and unexpected directions, the boys will need to confront hard truths and leave their childhood behind,” according to aplot summaryfromDeadline.
The British actor received his first Oscar nomination this year for Best Actor inSound of Metal. Playing a drummer who’s slowly losing his hearing, Ahmed went to great lengths to get into character, including learning drumming and sign language.
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“The first time I started having complete conversations in ASL, Ifound myself getting much more emotionalthan I would have done if I just said those same words,” Ahmed told PEOPLE in December. “… When you communicate in sign language, you communicate with your whole body and you have to be more facially expressive. You’re embodying and connecting physically with what you’re communicating.”
See Ahmed inEncounter, premiering December 10 on Amazon Prime Video.
source: people.com
