Sacha Baron Cohen told IndieWire that he would rather be anonymous like Banksy. The 49-year-old actor said that he only decided to return to comedy because he felt compelled to stop the rise of Trumpism. “I didn’t feel that I could look myself in the mirror if Trump had won, […]
Sacha Baron Cohen said in a Variety profile that Rudy Giuliani refused a COVID-19 test before doing the fake interview in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” “There was this debate of what do we do?” Baron Cohen told Variety. “Do we go ahead with this scene? What happens if he has coronavirus? […]
2020 hasn’t seen as many movies released as film buffs would have liked, with a host of pictures delayed until next year. But there’s still been plenty of movies worth celebrating, including a slew of Netflix flicks, and with awards season fast approaching, Insider has looked back at the best […]
Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” “Borat 2” director Jason Woliner told Insider that the Tom Hanks cameo came about after Sacha Baron Cohen emailed him out of the blue. Luckily, Hanks was game and the scene was shot over one day on a soundstage in Los Angeles just […]
“Borat 2” director Jason Woliner admitted to Insider that when he was told Sacha Baron Cohen was making a sequel to his hit comedy, he thought it was a mistake, which he told the star himself. “I basically said that ‘Borat’ is the funniest movie ever made and that it’s […]
“Borat 2” director Jason Woliner told Insider from the very start of production, it was filmmaker Sascha Baron Cohen’s main goal to get Rudy Giuliani on film. “Giuliani was the name from day one,” he said. “Rudy was the name in the first version [of the script] I read.” Woliner […]
In his first interview about the film, director Jason Woliner revealed behind-the-scenes secrets to filming “Borat 2.” He told Insider that from the very first script he read, the plan was to get Rudy Giuliani on film. Woliner also spoke about how he tried to talk star and filmmaker Sacha […]
In an interview with IndieWire, Maria Bakalova said she drank from a toilet and tried to eat a fish from an aquarium in her audition for “Borat 2.” Bakalova was scouted after the casting director Nancy Bishop spotted her in a movie called “The Father” at the 2019 Karlovy Vary […]
Erran Baron Cohen, the older brother of Sacha, told The Hollywood Reporter that he’d love to perform the “Wuhan Flu” song at the Oscars if it’s nominated for best original song. Erran Baron Cohen is a music composer, and created the soundtrack for “Borat 2” including the famous “Wuhan Flu” […]
The “Borat” films have presented a distorted view of Kazakhstan, a country that the average person likely knows little about. It is the ninth-largest country in the world, and has stunning natural beauty from deserts to mountains. Its capital, Nur-Sultan, is home to futuristic architecture and buildings designed by world-famous […]
“Borat 2” is earning rave reviews for its daring political stunts. But during an interview on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Sacha Baron Cohen broke down how the now-infamous Trump fat suit scene was almost ruined by a security guard. The notorious prankster said he was stopped by a security guard […]
There are a lot of characters in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Some were in on the joke, but many others definitely were not. Here we look at all 43 and rank them from worst to best. Warning: Spoilers below if you haven’t seen “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” streaming now on Amazon. Visit […]
Sacha Baron Cohen donated $US100,000 to the community of Jeansie Jones who is the babysitter in “Borat 2.” Baron Cohen’s donation will help Jones’ Oklahoma City community that is currently dealing with ice storms and power outages. Jones told Insider that she was never told that the movie was a […]
Fans surpassed the $US100,000 GoFundMe goal for Jeanise Jones, the beloved babysitter in the “Borat” sequel. Jones, 62, told Insider in an interview that she did not know the movie was a comedy, and believed it was a documentary about women living without rights in impoverished parts of the world. […]
In an op-ed article, the Southeastern European political scientist Jasmin Mujanović writes that “Borat 2” misses the mark and is difficult to watch. In the film, officially titled “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” currently streaming on Amazon, the actor Sacha Baron Cohen portrays a fictional Kazakh journalist who wants to offer his […]
We’ve gone through and found the wildest things that happened while filming “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” In “Borat 2,” Sacha Baron Cohen portrays a fictional Kazakh journalist, who wants to offer his daughter to Vice President Mike Pence as a gift from his native country. He stayed in character for five […]
Sacha Baron Cohen tweeted footage on Tuesday of what happened after he performed the “Wuhan Flu” song in “Borat 2.” Protesters at the rally stormed the stage, and Baron Cohen had to hide out in an ambulance. At one point an angry protester tried to get in and Baron Cohen […]
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