Swet Shop Boys: T5 - Production & Contact Info

Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Music Video | 3 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)

Music Video | 3 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A lifetime of traveling in brown skin and with a Muslim name have taught Riz Ahmed to expect the indignity of being racially profiled. At borders and airports, immigration officers see a potential terrorist where there's an actor. For ...See moreA lifetime of traveling in brown skin and with a Muslim name have taught Riz Ahmed to expect the indignity of being racially profiled. At borders and airports, immigration officers see a potential terrorist where there's an actor. For years, casting directors did much the same, typecasting him as a jihadi or a cab driver or some other racial stereotype. The Pakistani-British actor and rapper detailed, and connected, those experiences in a recent essay, published on The Guardian and excerpted from a forthcoming anthology. This sort of sociopolitical reflection through the lens of identity exists in much of Riz's work elsewhere. It's a significant thread in the music he makes with Himanshu Suri, b.k.a. Heems, as the rap duo Swet Shop Boys. "T5," a recent single from their forthcoming Cashmere LP, is a pulsing meditation on airports as centers of socially sanctioned racism. The video for the song, premiering here today and produced by The FADER, puts Riz and Heems at the mercy of TSA and border control officers at JFK's Terminal 5. In the clip, Riz and Heems play semi-autobiographical versions of themselves, with parallel experiences ending in different fates. And the message is right on time, coinciding with intense anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy in their home countries - Brexit in the U.K., and the ever-creeping threat of a Trump presidency in the U.S. Written by Fader Magazine / Rawiya Kameir See less

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
Kyle Merker TSA Agent 1 TSA Agent 1 See fewer	City on a Hill (2019)
Amanda Lea Mason TSA Agent 2 TSA Agent 2 See fewer	The Saint of the Impossible (2020)
Michael Rasulo TSA Agent 3 TSA Agent 3 See fewer	Raw Heat (2012)
Sara Silva TSA Agent 4 TSA Agent 4 See fewer	The Boys (2019)
Jaime Pineiro Dancer 1 Dancer 1 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Diego Borja Dancer 2 Dancer 2 See fewer	The Firing Squad (2024)
Adam Davenport Milli Milli See fewer	Glass Onion (2022)
Elijah Gravely Vanilli Vanilli See fewer	The Dog Walker (II) (2019)
David Serero Interrogator Interrogator See fewer	Say So (2021)
Asen Grigorov Soldier Soldier See fewer	The Blacklist (2013)
Harris Ansari Uber Driver Uber Driver See fewer	Queen's English (2018)
Linda Aydinian Background 1 Background 1 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Ned Bowen Background 2 Background 2 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Amelia Chairamonte Background 3 Background 3 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Herge M. Jansen Background 4 Background 4 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Jane Maushay Background 5 Background 5 See fewer	Swet Shop Boys: T5 (2016)
Warren McKnight Background 6 Background 6 See fewer	Paper Boys (2009)
Riz Ahmed Riz MC Riz MC See fewer	Sound of Metal (2019)
Tom Calvert Waiting Passenger (uncredited) Waiting Passenger (uncredited) See fewer	Riz MC: Dark Hearts (2012)
Himanshu Suri Himanshu Suri (uncredited) Himanshu Suri (uncredited) See fewer	Dirty Grandpa (2016)