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Can Mawaan Rizwan Unleash His ‘Bonkers,’ BAFTA-Winning ‘Juice’ on America?
Mawaan Rizwan on taking his "bonkers" and now BAFTA-winning show "Juice" to the U.S.
In his recent BAFTA TV Awards acceptance speech for best male performance in a comedy, British comic Mawaan Rizwan recalled a conversation with his therapist earlier that week about how he “needed to stop relying on external forms of validation… so, bad timing!” Created and written by the 31-year-old — who himself admits it’s “bonkers” — “Juice” sees him star as Jamma, a bowl cut-sporting, colorful tracksuit-wearing millennial who encounters chaos as he navigates work life and relationships. While this may have become a standard career trajectory for many contemporary comedians in the U.K. before branching out with their own series, Rizwan admits it’s not a route generally made available to artists such as himself — a working class guy who was born in Pakistan (his parents moved over when he was 3) with absolutely zero connections to the somewhat elitist British entertainment industry.
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