Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer arrive at the premiere of their new film Encounter at the Directors Guild of America on Thursday Night (December 2) in Los Angeles.
Riz Ahmed and wife Fatima Farheen Mirza hit the red carpet together for the premiere of Encounter during the 2021 BFI London Film Festival held at The Curzon Mayfair on Friday night (October 8) in London, England.
The cute couple were joined by the film’s director, Michael Pearce, for the event.
The film will center on two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. You can check out the trailer below!
Riz and Fatima, who met, fell in love and got married during quarantine last year, made their first red carpet appearance together at the 2021 Oscars.
The 38-year-old Sound of Metal star and Fatima, a best selling author, hit the red carpet together at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday (April 25) at Union Station in Los Angeles.
The couple even shared a cute moment on the red carpet with Riz fixing Fatima‘s hair for photos. See the moment below!
The 38-year-old Venom actor revealed the big news that he had gotten secretly married in a recent interview on Louis Theroux‘s Grounded podcast.
Riz shared that the marriage was very new to him and he and Fatima tied the knot “not very long [ago], actually. It’s the first time I’ve ever mentioned it in an interview. So, congratulations on this incredibly exciting scoop.”
While he didn’t reveal her name on the podcast, Riz did open up about her identity on The Tonight Show.
“It’s a weird one, isn’t it?” he shared on the program. “I guess because we live in a social media age, if you don’t get on the megaphone about stuff, it’s like it’s a secret? But I never know how much is oversharing.”
Riz did share how he and Fatima met.
“We just both sat down at the same table in a café, where we both turned up to write,” he remembered. “We were both jostling over the same laptop plug points, like a very modern way of meeting. And we struck up a friendship, and then we reconnected down the line. But it’s weirdly one of the many things about preparing for this role that was so special. It just brought a lot of goodness into my life.”
Fatima is the author of the best selling book, “A Place For Us”. She’s pictured at a event to promote the book with Sarah Jessica Parker below.
The Sex & The City actress and the A Place For Us author co-hosted a panel to discuss Fatima‘s new novel at Barnes & Noble Union Square on Thursday evening (June 13) in New York City.
Sarah is the editorial director of the new publishing imprint SJP for Hogarth, and A Place For Us is her first acquisition!
The debut novel is about an Indian Muslim family in California. It begins on the eve of eldest daughter Hadia’s wedding and unravels the past to explain why her brother, Amar, has been estranged from the family.