Riz Ahmed is James Bond. Or, well, not quite: The Oscar-nominated actor is the star and executive producer of the new Amazon Prime series Bait, a six-part comedy that casts the 43-year-old as a struggling Pakistani-British actor who, never having quite achieved his full potential, finds himself as the rumored frontrunner to become the next 007. It’s a captivating performance that British GQ’s Jack King attributed to Ahemd’s real-life “debonair refinement, cocksure confidence and, well, rizz, that the UK bookies once predicted he might bring to the role IRL.”

And during his press duties for the project, Ahmed (who himself was once rumored to be in the next-Bond conversation) has certainly looked the part. This week, he showed up to The Tonight Show wearing a Louis Vuitton tuxedo reminiscent of Sean Connery’s iconic getup: white dinner jacket, black bow tie, black tuxedo pants, finished with a red carnation lapel pin. But outside of such late-night bits, the actor has also been dressing refreshingly lowkey.

When he appeared on the Today show on Tuesday, the actor arrived in a shaggy green polo sweater from Bode, a Merz b. Schwanen white tee, Found light-wash denim featuring watercolor-style illustrations of wildflowers and galloping horses, and dark brown Studio Nicholson leather boots. Later that day, he kept on the same outfit but added a Found bottle-green leather jacket to attend a BAFTA screening of the film. All told, an everyday look with a touch of personality that doesn’t veer into method-dressing territory.

“The premise [of Bait] is really rich and gave us a lot to play with in terms of how we approached the tour,” says stylist Felicity Kay, who began working with Ahmed ahead of the Bait press tour, in an email. “My approach is always to ground everything in the person I’m working with, and here that felt even more important, making sure that any narrative threads still felt authentic to him rather than costume-led.”

Ahmed, in a Bode sweater and Found jeans, leaving the Today show on Tuesday.

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The actor also wore a Bode jacket to a SAG-AFTRA screening of the film on Monday.

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Kay, whose client roster also includes everyman-style extraordinaire Paul Mescal, says that she prioritizes “brands that Riz already has a relationship with and genuinely wears,” such as Bode, Found, Kartik Research, and Prada. Looking ahead to the rest of the press tour, she adds, “there are moments where we nod to elements of character, and others where we lean more fully into Riz’s own personal style.” In any case, it’s nice to imagine a world in which James Bond wears graffitied denim and green leather jackets.