Riz Ahmed’s Bait Shoplifting Scandal Fuels Prime Video
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- Riz Ahmed was banned from his local supermarket for suspected shoplifting the week photos of him from the upcoming Star Wars leaked.
- Riz Ahmed created the neurotic actor character Shah Latif for the Prime Video series Bait, drawing on his own shoplifting and audition experiences.
- Patrick Stewart agreed to voice a decapitated pig head in Bait after receiving Ahmed’s letter, despite expecting to decline.
- Guz Kahn recalled a chance meeting with Ahmed 20 years earlier at a spoken‑word performance in Coventry, which later inspired his role in Bait.
- Prime Video has not yet committed to a Season 2 of Bait, leaving the series’ future uncertain.
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