As the world starts closing in on Shah Latif (Riz Ahmed) in Prime Video's Bait, things start to go from ordinary to slightly surreal as the struggling actor has to deal with being thrown into the spotlight.
While his family and friends may be over the moon for him, he soon sees online vitriol being thrown his way, with plenty of racism and Islamophobia sadly piled on.
But we soon see that Shah is actually using the pig's head in another way – talking to it as though he's on a podcast.
View Green Video on the source website"I thought ‘Well, how do we dramatise it?’ Of course, when we got to that, there was a discovery in the room. When we got to the pig’s head at the end of episode 1, it was literally staring at us in the face.
"For years, it was my self-criticism that would motivate me more than joy or love. I wanted to show that actually, that self-criticism, it can be a double-edged sword. It can spur you to great ambition – but at what cost?”
The series may draw on Bond as a storytelling device, but the show is all about identity and public vs personal personas, as well as how those can impact our sense of self and those around us. It also impacts Shah's relationship with his cousin Zulfi, played by Guz Khan.
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Bait took Ahmed 12 years to develop and speaking about what was most important to nail in the series, Ahmed told Radio Times: “What I wanted to get right was the relationships and the characters. For that, I needed amazing actors. I needed Guz, there was only one person who could play Zulfi.
"I actually almost knew that if Guz doesn’t play Zulfi, the show would not work. He is the core of authenticity and represents a person that’s... Shah is not at ease with himself in the way that Zulfi is. I needed someone who’s fully at ease with himself – only a man at ease with himself can wear these orange glasses! And so, I needed him in the mix for that.”
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