{"id":8460,"date":"2010-05-17T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2010-05-17T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:13:03","slug":"interview-riz-ahmed-and-nigel-lindsay-on-four-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/05\/17\/interview-riz-ahmed-and-nigel-lindsay-on-four-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Riz Ahmed and Nigel Lindsay on Four Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four Lions<\/a><\/strong> marks the feature film debut of\u00a0Chris Morris<\/a> as a director and it is the story of four suicide bombers in a Northern town struggling to plan an attack on the London marathon.<\/p>\n

Omar (Riz Ahmed<\/a>) is disillusioned with how Muslims are treated around the world and determined to lead some kind of attack on the West. His protege is Waj (Kayvan Novak<\/a>) who is\u00a0enthralled by the thought of doing something exciting. Meanwhile Barry (Nigel Lindsay<\/a>) is a white Islamic convert who has issues with Omar, whilst Faisal (Adeel Akhtar<\/a>) tries to experiment by strapping bombs to crows.<\/p>\n

After pioneering work in radio (On the Hour<\/a>, Blue Jam<\/a>) and TV (The Day Today<\/a>, Brass Eye<\/a>) Morris has always had a sharp, satirical eye for how controversial subjects have been presented to the wider public.<\/p>\n

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With this film he tackles the issue of contemporary religious extremism by focusing on the naive ineptitude he encountered through his research in to the subject.<\/p>\n

It might seem counter-intuitive\u00a0to make light of a subject which continues to have such serious\u00a0consequences, but as recent events in New York have proved<\/a>, comic ineptitude can often be a feature of the attacks that don’t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In some ways this is a sister film to Armando Ianucci’s In the Loop<\/a> – whereas that focused on the dark political comedy that lay behind the war on terror, this explores the farcical nature of terrorism on the front line.<\/p>\n

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I recently spoke with Riz Ahmed<\/strong> and Nigel Lindsay<\/strong> about the film, what it was like working with Morris and why it seems to have touched a nerve at the UK box office.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview by clicking here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Riz_Ahmed_and_Nigel_Lindsay_on_Four_Lions.mp3]\n

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

Four Lions <\/strong>is out now at UK cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
> Riz\u00a0Ahmed<\/a> and Nigel Lindsay<\/a> at the IMDb
>\u00a0Official site
<\/a>> Find out if Four Lions is playing at a cinema near you via Find Any Film<\/a>
>\u00a0Search local cinema listings at Google Movies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interview with Riz Ahmed and Nigel Lindsay, two of the actors in Chris Morris’ new satire Four Lions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[1355,1354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}