(ANSA) - NEW YORK, OCTOBER 19 - In the final sprint before the elections Sacha Baron Cohen challenges the presidency of Donald Trump with two new films, one very serious and the other super-comical: after playing the part of activist Abbie Hoffman in the reconstruction for Netflix of the "Trial of Chicago 7", the British actor has put himself back in Borat's shoes, bringing his satire at the center of the presidential campaign 15 years after the first "mockumentary" on the Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev.
"Borat 2" will be streamed on Amazon Prime on October 23, eBaron Cohen revealed to the New York Times how a few months ago he managed to sneak in, disguised as Trump, at a conservative committee meeting in Maryland that Vice-President Mike Pence was supposed to be speaking to. .
After passing the security lines by pretending to have a defibrillator on, the actor had burst into the room carrying a young woman on the shoulder (the actress Irina Nowak who is the daughter of Sandra Jessica Parker Sagdiyev in the film): "Mr. Vice-President, I have a present for her".
The scene, documented at the time by photographers who spoke of an "unidentified Trump impersonator", is included in the trailer for the film to make which Baron Cohen also had to "stay in character" for five consecutive days after asking for hospitality from a group. of conspiracies on the right.
In the same vein but in a decidedly more serious tone, BaronCohen gave voice and face to the founder of the Yippies (Youth International Party) movement Hoffman for Aaron Sorkin.
"The Chicago 7 Trial" recreates a historical moment that resonates current in the days of the Black Lives Matter movement marches: the spectator "is parachuted" to when in 1968 the Chicago police used force against the anti-war protests in Vietnam at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Chicago leading to arrest of protest leaders.
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