On typecasting, Ahmed also told THR, "I'd rather be broke," than take another "Terrorist 3" role. "If the given circumstances change, I'm more like you, you're more like me. To learn foreign accents Ahmed interviews people and records them. "Interviewing people who have been through Rikers (where Ahmed's character is imprisoned), been through the prison system, it was a kind of detail of things like how people just let go of family.