"When in Rome" 3.16 XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS
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John: I loved Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler. As we were looking for a character for Bodhi Rook, I made sure to throw his name in the hat. He did a few auditions for us. He kept cranking out different versions of Bodhi.
Gareth: Riz filmed himself. He was in New York. He did a little thing of, like, this is how Bodhi could be.
Riz: And then, obviously, the obsession starts where you start doing 50,000 takes of some things. You're left to your own devices. And then [Gareth] was like, “Great, we've got what we need” but I didn't stop there. I just carried on recording more takes and just emailing him. I was like “Screw it, I've got his email address now.”
Gareth: (Describing Riz's audition tapes) “He could be like this. Or he could be like this.'” I was like, “Okay, anyway, you've got the part.” And then we got another eight clips.
Director Gareth Edwards, Riz Ahmed, and co-producer John Swartz speaking about the audition process for Bodhi Rook in Rogue One (2016)
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"We thought it was going that way from the very start of the first season. Neil Jordan, the creator of the show, denied it from the beginning but we were like "it's all over your writing man." It's in every single line, every single scene: these two are definitely in love with each other. So to me it's really a love story. It came as a natural progression I would say. I didn't judge the characters, it seemed very natural actually."
— FRANÇOIS ARNAUD
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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about
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