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Riz Ahmed spent 10 years developing his deeply personal 'Bait,' and he was “ready to go and become a hermit if everybody hated it.” He tells Katey Rich that instead, the audacious series hit precisely the nerve he'd hoped for - mrf.lu/wMtd
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