{"id":2258681,"date":"2026-01-30T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258681"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:38:16","slug":"riz-ahmed-has-never-auditioned-for-bond-but-his-show-bait-is-a-chance-to-throw-himself-in-the-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/riz-ahmed-has-never-auditioned-for-bond-but-his-show-bait-is-a-chance-to-throw-himself-in-the-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Riz Ahmed Has Never Auditioned for Bond, but His Show \u2018Bait\u2019 Is a Chance to Throw Himself in the Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems like every actor, especially those from the United Kingdom, has had some sort of brush with playing James Bond. In his new Amazon series \u201cBait<\/a>,\u201d creator and star Riz Ahmed<\/a> turns the fallout of a busted 007 audition on its head. The Oscar nominee stars as struggling actor Shah Latif who, at first, blows a shot at the coveted role. Until he gets another chance, and his public and private worlds implode from his online presence to his relationships with his Pakistani-British immigrant family.<\/p>\n

\u201cBait<\/a>,\u201d which premiered three episodes at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival before it drops on Amazon Prime Video on March 25, is an industry and cultural satire with the freneticism of \u201cThe Studio<\/a>\u201d matched to Ahmed (and co-star Guz Khan<\/a>\u2019s) uniquely immigrant perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy elevator pitch at the time was: It\u2019s about an out-of-work actor who somehow gets through to the last round of auditions…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like every actor, especially those from the United Kingdom, has had some sort of brush with playing James Bond. In his new Amazon series \u201cBait,\u201d creator and star Riz Ahmed turns the fallout of a busted 007 audition on its head. The Oscar nominee stars as struggling actor Shah Latif who, at first, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2258681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Riz-Ahmed-Has-Never-Auditioned-for-Bond-but-His-Show.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258683,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258681\/revisions\/2258683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}