The new dark comedy miniseries, Bait, imagines a world where a British Pakistani Muslim actor is up for contention as the new James Bond. Vulture’s Roxana Hadadi spoke with Elamin Abdelmahmoud about why she feels this show could only have been made by Riz Ahmed.
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