Riz Ahmed was hospitalized while filming 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - an experience that later helped him connect to his acclaimed role in The Sound of Metal. "Around the time of taking on Sound of Metal, I had a very intense health-related experience myself," Ahmed, 42, said on the Thursday, August 28, episode of the "Podcrushed" podcast, referring to his 2019 movie about a drummer who loses his hearing. "I had to grapple with the grief but also the acceptance around that.