Riz Ahmed Made a TV Present Concerning the Hunt for James Bond

The world is ready to study who’ll play James Bond in Amazon’s first movie with the franchise—and a brand new Prime Video collection is capitalizing on the second.

Known as Bait, the collection stars Riz Ahmed as struggling actor Shah Latif, who auditions to be the subsequent actor to don 007’s go well with. With Bond being such a sought-after function, his going to the auditions goes viral, and shortly it turns into gospel that he’s going to e book the half. Or a minimum of, it’s gospel to his household and buddies, as seen within the clip beneath. The reactions amongst them run the gamut from pleasure to confusion (“Did Daniel Craig die?” asks Shah’s father, which…technically yes?) to eager about the paycheck to return.

Bait takes place over the 4 days between Shah’s audition and studying whether or not he’ll truly e book the half. In that point, everybody’s going to have one thing to say about this information, which will likely be fairly correct to casting somebody as large as James Bond.

Since No Time to Die, there’s been a lot hypothesis about who’d be subsequent to play him and who followers would wish to play him, like Idris Elba and Henry Cavill. Denis Villeneuve’s supposedly not begun his search but, however you’ve doubtless heard rumors and hypothesis over the previous 12 months about younger actors like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Callum Turner being pursued or up for consideration.

Search for Bait and all its six episodes to hit Prime Video on March 25.

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