{"id":542408,"date":"2026-01-25T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:04:15","slug":"riz-ahmed-says-bait-isnt-a-james-bond-show-but-barbara-broccoli-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542408\/","title":{"rendered":"Riz Ahmed Says &#8216;Bait&#8217; Isn&#8217;t A James Bond Show, But Barbara Broccoli Approves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>BAIT<\/strong><br \/><strong>Section:<\/strong> Episodic (Sundance)<br \/><strong>Creator:<\/strong> Riz Ahmed<br \/><strong>Logline: <\/strong>Struggling actor Shah Latif auditions for the role of a lifetime, only to see his life spiral out of control over four frenetic days.<br \/><strong>Panelists:<\/strong> Riz Ahmed and Guz Khan<br \/><strong>Key Quote:<\/strong> Ahmed on the James Bond element of the show, \u201cI started making notes in my little notepad 10 years ago now, about that crazy distance between our public and our private selves. On the outside, it\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, you\u2019re killing it man. You\u2019re doing great!\u2019 And the waiter comes up, it\u2019s time to tip. \u2018Oh, they think I\u2019m really successful right now, I gotta send a big tip.\u2019 You\u2019re broke. These things happen, these contradictions between how we\u2019re perceived, how we want to be perceived, and how we are. That\u2019s what the show is really about. It was through discussing with my co-showrunner Ben Karlin, we were talking about our lives, our experiences, funny anecdotes, and the Bond thing came up. And I was like, \u2018Actually, that\u2019s the perfect aspirational symbol that can help drive the story of someone who aspires to be someone else.\u2019 But that\u2019s not where the show grew out of, but it was a conversation with Barbara Broccoli, who understood that and understood the show\u2019s not really about that. And yet, gave her blessing, she really loved the script.\u201d<br \/><strong>Distributors:<\/strong> Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch the full conversation in the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline Studio at Sundance presented by Casamigos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAITSection: Episodic (Sundance)Creator: Riz AhmedLogline: Struggling actor Shah Latif auditions for the role of a lifetime, only to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19194,18423,239128,19195,185,171,239129,15223,162597,124933,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-542408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-19194","9":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","10":"tag-bait","11":"tag-barbara-broccoli","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-guz-khan","15":"tag-james-bond","16":"tag-riz-ahmed","17":"tag-sundance-film-festival","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115957299045797848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}