Emmy nominee Riz Ahmed on his 10-year quest to put all of himself in Bait

Emmy nominee Riz Ahmed on his 10-year quest to put all of himself in Bait

Riz Ahmed is no stranger to demanding, daring projects: His first high-profile role in the United States involved playing a tragic foil to Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler—though, if that film’s dark sense of humor resonated with you, you might have already been familiar with Ahmed from satirical British projects like Four Lions or Dead Set. His resolute yet vulnerable work in HBO’s The Night Of led to a record-breaking Emmy win in 2017, and he w…