Once you’ve completed the new season, read the creator and star go deep on it all.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forRamyseason 2.
“You’re dangerous.”
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Will these words to Ramy from his exasperated teacher Sheikh Ali be enough to wake him up?
“It was not the very first scene that [Ali and I] shot together.
Like, I made this show to have that scene, in many ways.
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There is mercy here.'
So I definitely didn’t want to shoot that scene first.
[Laughs] I think we shot that during Mahershala’s second week.”
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Because finding the answer would mean some sort of permanence, and it would be really making a choice.
Episode 2, “can you hear me?”
“In many ways, we’re all Dennis, even someone like me.
So he’s really like a manifestation of that and the buried feeling that a lot of people have.
Dennis is very similar to Ramy, like he also wants to be new.
The season finale ultimately reveals that the man dies from his injuries.
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And it’s also really funny to me.
and then beating the s out of somebody.
It’s one of the big debates that people go back and forth on.
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Upon arrival at the massive estate, Ramy notices a familiar face: porn star Mia Khalifa.
“I cannot jerk off to my own mother,” he says.
We had an idea in season 1 that had involved her, but it never really made it.
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We actually castLindsay Lohan, because Lindsay hadthis whole thing about converting to Islam.
I don’t know, I never heard from her.
you’re able to’t try and put Lindsay in a box, that’s what I know.
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Lindsay is going to be Lindsay.
The door is open for her on season 3, and she is one of my favorite Muslims.
“But there was this conversation to be had.
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[Laughs] She was really great to work with.
She was a really, really kind person and did such a good job on the episode.”
Unfortunately, she does come to find out that there is a ton of that.”
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Dena dismisses this, until she starts losing her hair, which causes an emotional spiral.
I’ve been wanting to show a perspective of a character who has a different relationship with their faith.
Ramy is obviously really aspiring, and for so many reasons Dena has this really contentious relationship with it.
And the negative attention comes at the worst possible time considering she’s on the verge of earning citizenship.
She discovers that the passenger in question is a gender-fluid person who she offended.
So I think this crosses all lines.
It just felt like a really American story for someone who wanted to be an American."
And they also are in many cases shining certain things on each other that other people don’t.
It opens up all these other things that are difficult for Steve to grapple with.
Steve is like, ‘Are you just doing this for your faith?’
It just felt like the most exciting thing for them to go through.
And this again came out of a real conversation with Steve.
Unfortunately, when Paco kisses him, Naseem reacts by punching him.
“When we first meet Naseem, he’s being super-homophobic and he puts on this machismo and masculinity.
And hearing him talk about his ex-wife leaving him, we don’t really understand what happened.
This is something that men of that generation are still figuring out and still dealing with.
It just felt like it really fit Naseem.”
Zainab leaves in the middle of the night, and the marriage is over before it truly begins.
He literally has nowhere to run.
There’s nowhere left to hide, there’s no one to go to.
He’s in this place that he never thought he’d be in."
When Ramy wakes up, he finds Sheikh Ali in his hotel room instead of Zainab.
“You’re dangerous,” he declares.
“F you, Ramy!
F you, you little f, you little fing boy.
F you, Ramy!
The sheikh says he can’t help Ramy and leaves, but will Mahershala Ali return?
“I think the way we ended things gives us an option.
These two are linked in a real way, and I’m excited to explore more of that.
I’m looking forward to that, and so I hope.
Inshallah that we get to do more of that.”
The episode opens with a flashback to Ramy and Amani in Egypt.
“I’m not going to risk everything for someone who doesn’t believe in anything.”
She can’t do it, telling him to go back to his wife.
“I don’t think he knows if he’s truly in love with her.
It’s hard to give into love when you don’t really even know yourself.
So it’s like, how could he know?
I think he thinks he does.
But it’s too much for him to even understand right now.
So it’s like a projection of himself is fully in love with her.
With his marriage over and this news a secret from his family, Ramy has nowhere to go.
“It’s up for interpretation.
He’s still doing this egocentric performance of it.
