Profile’s Shazad Latif On Why His ISIS Role Needed To Be As Realistic As Possible, Despite Any Danger

Shazad Latif’s Bilel plays out a very complicated relationship with Valene Kane’s Amy, who, like in the true story, is a journalist posing as a newly converted Muslim seeking to join ISIS. The conversations are based on actual Skype conversations and messages exchanged between a terrorist recruiter and real-life journalist, Anna Errelle, who remains under police protection to this day.