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We caught up with Riz at the Digger world premiere in London to talk about stepping into Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s brilliantly chaotic new film alongside Tom Cruise.

Riz plays Dr Ganesh, one of the people attempting to navigate the increasingly outrageous world surrounding billionaire Digger Rockwell and tells us about working with Tom, joining Iñárritu’s incredible ensemble and getting swept up in the madness of Digger.

The film also stars John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma D’Arcy and Sophie Wilde. Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I've heard a lot of people come out of this film and say, I've never seen anything like
00:03it.
00:03Riz, wow.
00:04You are incredible, Ganesh.
00:05Just tell me what it felt to be in Alejandro's world.
00:09Alejandro is a world builder and that's how it felt for us as actors and I think that's
00:14how it's going to feel for audiences.
00:16He just pulls you in, this beautiful, beautiful constructed world and he's done that with
00:22everything.
00:23Whether it's Birdman, whether it's Revenant, whether it's Amoris Peros and the world he's
00:27created here is unlike any other you've been to before.
00:30I've heard a lot of people come out of this film and say, I've never seen anything like
00:33it.
00:34So that's just what he does.
00:36Yeah, it's a total spectacle, it really is unbelievable.
00:38You went toe to toe with Tom Cruise.
00:42Just how did that feel in this movie?
00:44It's an absolute pleasure working with someone who is that positive, energetic.
00:49I remember once in rehearsal, I screwed something up and I was apologizing and saying, all right,
00:54let's move on.
00:54He stopped the whole rehearsal and made everyone give me a round of applause for trying something.
00:59That's how encouraging he is.
01:01Who doesn't want a boss like that, you know?
01:03So for him to be one of the producers in the movie, for him to be creating that space of
01:07joy and play, it's just so liberating for everyone.
01:10Do you have a highlight?
01:11I know it's difficult to ask you that because it's probably all a highlight.
01:16You know, honestly, the highlight for me was watching everyone else work.
01:19It was that kind of thing, it was like, when people weren't shooting themselves, they were
01:24still sticking around on set sometimes just to watch and say, oh, no, I want to see what
01:28Sandra is doing.
01:28I want to see what Jesse is doing.
01:29I want to see what Sophie is doing.
01:31This incredible cast was so inspiring.
01:34So a lot of it was, it felt like I had a front row seat.
01:37And your family are watching it tonight?
01:39They are.
01:40Yeah.
01:40My mum's here.
01:41She looks beautiful.
01:42She's in her sari.
01:44And yeah, I'm excited too.
01:46I actually, I've got to tell you, I shared it with not just my mum, but my brothers-in-law,
01:50my sisters-in-law, like from ages 25 to 75, everyone was laughing.
01:55Everyone was gasping with surprise and everyone wanted to talk about it afterwards.
01:59So that feels to me like the perfect reaction.

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