Riz Ahmed isn’t playing James Bond, but in Bait , he plays a struggling actor who gets the miracle opportunity to audition for the part of 007. Ahmed wrote Bait in addition to starring in it, and the show captures a buzzing anxiety inherent not only to the industry itself but also to those who still have hopes of making it big out of nowhere. In this “Performance History,” Ahmed runs through his own career beginnings, when he tried to make it as both a rapper and an actor. First Big Audition It