Riz Ahmed has revealed he’s lost two members of his family to coronavirus. Addressing the effect the pandemic – which he liked to ‘an alien invasion’ – has had on society, the Venom actor said the crisis was ‘reflecting and revealing the faultlines’. Read the latest updates: Coronavirus news live.
The actor and rapper hopes the surge of appreciation for the NHS, what with the weekly 8pm claps and rainbows in windows, will also draw attention to prejudice against the ethnic minorities that keep it running.
He told GQ Hype: ‘Who are the people who, for every moment of crisis in this country, have kept this country together? It’s the people at the bottom of the barrel; the people being hit hardest by this pandemic. ‘We say we love the NHS more