Riz Ahmed: You don’t often see a South Asian family in a genre film

Riz Ahmed (Aaron Chown/PA)

Riz Ahmed has said “you don’t often see a family that looks like this, in a movie like this” as he discussed his role as a father racing to save his children in new sci-fi road movie Encounter.

The actor, 38, plays an ex-Marine battling to save his young sons from a virus, possibly triggered when an asteroid crashed into the earth, and their already infected mother, in the new film from Beast director Michael Pearce.