“Performance isn’t about putting on the mask, it’s about taking it off. It’s about sharing with the world who you are, sharing your privacy and your insanity. And if you do that, people will connect with it because it’s honest,” Riz Ahmed told The Times in the latest episode of The Envelope podcast. Ahmed talked to The Times’ Mark Olsen about drawing on his own experience for #Bait, his Prime Video series about a British Muslim actor whose life is upended when he’s rumored to be the next James Bond. Click the link in latimes_entertainment’s bio to watch the full episode.