Riz Ahmed

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Fresh Air · Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait' · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

And so much of this show is a love letter to home and it's about family and how far do you travel from home in order to please home or help home, you know.

And then, of course, there's a big spy thriller element to our show and bait is something that's used as part of a trap.

And so it's that.

So it's a weird thing where only in retrospect, we realize like, oh my God, we accidentally stumbled on the perfect title for this that actually communicates the entire layer cake of this show.

It is all those flavors.

And the word bait means all those things.

Do you know what?

I often have to explain what the word bait means to American collaborators because I say it all the time.

Often I'll come up with an idea, you know, a spitball in the writer's room and I'll go, what about this?

Actually, that's too bait.

That's a bit bait.

I don't want it to be as bait as that.

And they go, what do you mean?

And I was like, oh, bait means like too blatant.

It's not subtle enough.

And of course, that's British slang because the most important thing you have to be as a Brit is understated and subtle and, you know, reserved.

And so bait is a kind of derogatory kind of slang term.

First of all, it elevates the story just by the fact that it's Patrick Stewart in this story.

I mean, he's such a hero.

You know, I don't want to say too much about the role he plays because it is very particular and I don't want to give anything away.

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