Patrick Stewart voices a pig's head in Bait

 The refrigerator door opened, and a pig's head inside actually spoke in the voice of Patrick Stewart.This is a scene from Prime Video's 2026 black comedy "Bait" starring Riz Ahmed.

Shah Latif, played by Ahmed, is a British Pakistani actor.After he auditions for the next 007 movie, he falls into a crisis about his identity and direction in life.Over the next four days, things quickly spiraled out of control.Shah deliberately left through an exit where he would be photographed by the paparazzi, allowing his connection to James Bond to spread online; the news sparked a furious reaction, including one throwing a severed pig's head through his parents' living room window.

At the beginning of the next episode, viewers are briefly led to believe that Shah is being interviewed by Stewart.As the scene unfolded, it was discovered that he was actually talking to the pig's head in the refrigerator, and the answer he heard was Stewart's voice.This character was named “Pigtrick”, and the name also borrowed the pronunciation of Patrick.

What had originally been a hateful threat became a constant voice in Shah's head.TVLine interprets this as a manifestation of the character's self-doubt: Shah wants the status and respect conferred by a character like Bond, but he also knows what obstacles actors of color will encounter if they want to get there.Later, he put the pig's head in a bag and carried it through the city, but the hallucinations still continued.

Stewart has certainly done a lot of comedies.He guest-starred as Alistair Burke, the well-known director and head of the Opera Society, in Frasier, voiced the leader of the Stonemasons in The Simpsons, and played an exaggerated version of himself in Extras.These experiences are very different from Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

When co-star LeVar Burton paid tribute to Stewart, he said that among the knighted people he knew, Stewart was the most mischievous at heart.

《 Bait 》 also became one of Stewart's last television credits before his death.Ahmed told GQ in an interview that Stewart was willing to take on the dubbing because he had never read anything like it.