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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Riz Ahmed Shot the Panic Attack Scene in Bait in the Same Exact Place He Had a Real One · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Actors often pull from real life experiences to channel emotions
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  Speaker 2: for a scene. But a pivotal moment in Riz Ahmed's
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  Speaker 2: critically acclaimed show Bait takes it to a whole new level.
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  Speaker 3: So Riz, who also wrote and developed the series, plays
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  Speaker 3: a struggling actor who gets the opportunity of a lifetime
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  Speaker 3: to audition to be the next James Bond. And in
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  Speaker 3: the first episode of Bait, he's at a hip hop
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  Speaker 3: club when he reads online comments from haters bashing him
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  Speaker 3: relentlessly for ever even being considered for 007.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it gives him a full blown panic attack
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  Speaker 4: in the club and he literally spirals.
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  Speaker 2: He tells Variety that stems from Riz himself having a
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  Speaker 2: very real panic attack, literally the same exact club they
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  Speaker 2: shot at when he was a struggling unknown rapper opening
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  Speaker 2: for Wu-Tang.
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  Speaker 3: And Wu-Tang was two hours late. The end result was
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  Speaker 3: 5,000 people all booing him.
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  Speaker 4: Riz started collapsing inside on stage and only managed to
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  Speaker 4: gasp out about two and a half minutes set before
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  Speaker 4: he bolted off stage.
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  Speaker 2: The fire escape, he stumbles down in the show. Same one.
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  Speaker 2: He struggled down in real life. No surprise. It was
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  Speaker 2: one of the most natural scenes to execute in his career.
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  Speaker 2: Riz is up for an Emmy for his efforts. Outstanding
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  Speaker 2: lead actor in a limited or anthology series. Bait is
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  Speaker 2: on prime now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.