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Actor @SachaBaronCohen revealed to us the secret behind the scene in the latest 'Borat' movie when he crashes Mike Pence’s speech at CPAC.
The amazing @GlennWhipp has the story: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
The amazing @GlennWhipp has the story: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
"I prepared by waking up at 1 in the morning, driving to a motel, sitting in a chair for six hours while a prosthetics team changed my face to Donald Trump’s."
But it also involved "sneaking into CPAC and staying in a men’s lavatory for a number of hours” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
But it also involved "sneaking into CPAC and staying in a men’s lavatory for a number of hours” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
What did he do several hours in a restroom?
“I had a phone, and I had one Coca-Cola. And I put little lines on the Coke bottle for how much I could drink per hour. In the meantime, I became familiar with the inner workings of the right-wing man" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
“I had a phone, and I had one Coca-Cola. And I put little lines on the Coke bottle for how much I could drink per hour. In the meantime, I became familiar with the inner workings of the right-wing man" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
He was surprised the trick worked.
Universal Pictures execs suggested delaying the movie to 2021 when movie theaters presumably would be open.
But Cohen couldn’t shake what they captured Pence saying during his CPAC speech: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
Universal Pictures execs suggested delaying the movie to 2021 when movie theaters presumably would be open.
But Cohen couldn’t shake what they captured Pence saying during his CPAC speech: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
If not for Trump, Cohen would never have made a “Borat” sequel. “The new ‘Borat’ is really my form of peaceful protest,” Cohen says.
Here are two times when their paths crossed: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
Here are two times when their paths crossed: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-12/sacha-baron-cohen-borat-trial-of-the-chicago-seven
We interviewed "Borat" star Maria Bakalova ( @MariaBakalova96), who told us the scene that was a "metaphor for the patriarchal society" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-01-04/maria-bakalova-borat-female-empowerment-rudy-giuliani
While Bakalova has said she "always felt safe" during the controversial Rudy Guiliani scene, Baron Cohen revealed in an interview that he was “quite concerned for her” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-10-23/sacha-baron-cohen-giuliani-borat-movie-gma
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