Riz Ahmed leads a new big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival The actor-producer tells PEOPLE that the play first ...

says, isn’t on the verge of suicide in his “To be or not to be” soliloquy — he’s trying to man up. “It’s not ‘Should I end it all?’” says Ahmed, who speaks the iconic lines in a new “Hamlet” that ...

Riz Ahmed has wanted to make a Hamlet movie since he was 16. The 42-year-old actor, plays Danish prince Hamlet in a new adaptation of the play, which relocates the tragedy to modern London, ...

Set in London's South Asian community, the Telluride-premiering film relies (mostly) on the Bard's language. By Caryn James This latest version of Hamlet begins with a death ritual. Riz Ahmed, as the ...

T hirteen years in the making, Riz Ahmed’s modern-day South Asian Hamlet has arrived just in time to capture the mood of the ...

This year alone, there has been rising anticipation for Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of Hamnet – a story about the real-life tragedy that inspired the play. And one that also, coincidentally, stars Alwyn ...