Call this The sound of the name of Riz Ahmed’s wife. When the Metal sound star let out that he recently married at Louis Theroux’s house Grounded podcast, he declined to share his wife’s name, but changed his mind when speaking to Jimmy Fallon on January 13 The Tonight Show. The lucky lady? Fatima Farheen Mirza, “an incredible novelist” whose acclaimed debut in 2018, A place for us, it was a new york Times 2019 bestseller and finalist One Book, One New York. Ahmed met Mirza at a New York cafe when he was working on his Metal sound Occupation. “We were both competing for the same laptop connection point,” he said. “It is like a very modern form of meeting.”
One thing led to another, and the two ended up getting married in a “super intimate” ceremony in the backyard. Ahmed told Fallon that he did not intend it to be a “secret” wedding, as it is being characterized. “I never know how much sharing is over,” he explained. “Like, I like matcha lattes, but it never comes. I am not a secret matcha-latte drinker. ”No more, at least! The best part of your little pandemic wedding, though? “You didn’t have 500 aunts hanging around you, pinching your cheeks,” said Ahmed. “No disrespect to aunts, but Asian weddings are big, and you always have these people crawling out of carpentry, which I think are probably imposters. They just smell the kebabs on the street and just walk in, like, ‘Yes, I met you when you were a kid!’ “