United Kingdom, May 20 -- Riz Ahmed found making low-budget movies to be "liberating" early in his career.

The 43-year-old actor starred in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Four Lions, Trishna, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, before getting his big break in Hollywood - but Riz actually enjoyed the freedom that he had early in his career.

Riz - who had his break-out role in Nightcrawler in 2014 - told The Hollywood Reporter: "What popped into my head was this sense of dancing like no one's watching is the best dancing. And I think about some of the films I did in the beginning, and I was 100 percent certain no one would watch, which was so liberating.

"You could just take swings. But sometimes you get that thi...