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 ...

Riz Ahmed thinks Shakespearean scholars don't get what makes Hamlet tick. The Danish prince, he 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 ...

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 ...