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"That's not a very enticing prospect most of the year in the U.K." Ahmed's rituals extend to his team at Left Handed, which consists of Allie Moore, a former AMC executive who joined the company in January as senior vice president and head of television, and creative executive Megha Kohli. During an in-person meeting with Moore, Kohli, and Ahmed at a café in Brooklyn, Kugler noted that Ahmed made eye contact throughout the meeting, and shifted his entire body in his chair to face whoever was speaking. Whatever system Ahmed has or doesn't have in place, it's working. For all his professional accomplishments - he won an Emmy for his breakout role as Nasir Khan in The Night Of and was nominated for another for his guest appearance as a surf instructor who gets Hannah pregnant on Girls - Ahmed says he still felt like the one character he hadn't seen represented was a guy like Riz Ahmed, a layered, complicated individual who defies stereotypes and pigeonholes. Ahmed's speech opened with an anecdote he has shared a few times about being detained at London's Luton Airport after returning from the Berlin premiere of Road to Guantánamo, a docudrama that was Ahmed's first feature film. [Extracted from the article]

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