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Borat comes to the rescue of the United States

2020-10-26T17:26:46.642Z


Sacha Baron Cohen premieres the sequel to his most iconic work to denounce Trump's excesses and the risks for the country before the elections


With Sacha Baron Cohen (London, 49 years old) the controversy is assured.

Capable of making people laugh with his thanks or misfortunes, he is the first to call himself a jester, a term that the actor and comedian uses to describe his work, whether dressed up as Ali G, Bruno or the famous Borat.

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, is the latest to complain about Baron Cohen's ingenuity, being recorded in a more than compromising situation in a hotel room with an alleged journalist in

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

.

I mean, the sequel to

Borat,

Now available on Amazon Prime Video.

Therefore, what is surprising is the seriousness with which someone who always talks like his character talks, in the case of Borat, a false homophobic, sexist and racist journalist from Kazakhstan.

Baron Cohen even pauses to clarify something about his work: “The next few weeks will determine whether the United States remains a democracy or falls into autocracy.

It is time to be heard.

No choice.

As a comedian, my film is my voice.

That's why I premiere now, before the elections.

I have shot the funniest film since

Borat

but also a wake-up call ”.

The interpreter speaks from a hotel in San Francisco where the phone does not stop ringing.

And within the seriousness he cannot avoid humor, imitating accents as if he were his idol, Peter Sellers.

His new film follows the keys of the one that became a blockbuster 14 years ago, narrating in a documentary tone the misadventures of a fictional character from the

Da Ali G Show program.

Borat is only slightly more ultra than Trump, according to his creator: “They are both misogynistic, racist, support anti-Semitism and don't give a shit about democracy.

They are both laughable. "

The president of the United States does not seem to have much appreciation for Baron Cohen either.

He affirmed that he is "a phony", that he does not find it funny and that the "only thing" he knows about him is that years ago he tried to deceive him, as reported this Saturday on Twitter by the White House chief of staff, Steve Herman.

To which the actor replied in the same social network that he does not like Trump either.

"And yet the whole world laughs at you," he snapped.

Donald — I appreciate the free publicity for Borat!

I admit, I don't find you funny either.

But yet the whole world laughs at you.



I'm always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you'll need a job after Jan. 20. Let's talk! Https: //t.co/itWnhJ8TQF

- Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) October 24, 2020

Borat returns amid a deep crisis in the United States.

"If the first film brought to light the worst of the country, now everything is in sight thanks to Trump," he compares.

Hence, he wanted to delve into the bear's cave and, among other moments in the film, attending a speech by Vice President Mike Pence, disguised as Trump;

confining himself in the middle of the pandemic with two conspiranoids from the most extreme right, and almost getting into Giuliani's fly.

According to the former mayor of New York, "there is a perfectly innocent explanation" for those images in the film in which he is lying on the bed with his hands in his pants, in the crotch area, in a room where he arrives accompanied by a young woman who has just interviewed him and who is the actress who plays Borat's daughter (Maria Bakalova).

“I was tucking my shirt on after taking off the microphone.

Neither before, nor then nor after the interview did anything inappropriate happen, ”the politician said in a statement.

Baron Cohen prefers the public to decide.

"I do not want to burst the climax," he is silent, malicious, but making it clear that he never put his actress in danger.

"The only person responsible for Giuliani's actions is Giuliani," he adds, underlining that the Republican's concern was made clear by the brutal search of the hotel that he requested from the police after the recording.

It wasn't the only time Baron Cohen / Borat found himself breathing hard through his nose, his anti-stress technique, during filming.

The winner of the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical and Oscar nominee with

Borat

wore a bulletproof vest for the first time while attending a demonstration in favor of the right to bear arms with a shirt against the National Rifle Association.

And he broke into a sweat when he was escorted by Pence's secret service and other law enforcement agencies, “someone who has the same level of security as the president”, still dressed as Trump and managed to get out of there without disclosing his identity or that of Borat.

And always with the cameras rolling.

“Of course I was scared.

Like any.

We rehearse the situations, but when the day comes I'm terrified.

Also, this shoot was the most difficult because many already know Borat.

But I had to take a risk or I would be forever ashamed of not having done it, ”she is sincere.

Baron Cohen blames social media, the Internet revolution, for the intoxication that has led the United States and the world to this crisis of democratic society.

“A handful of people control the information received by billions.

Lies and conspiracy theories always spread faster and are more entertaining than the truth, "he explains.

The new

Borat

comes after the premiere of his latest dramatic work as an actor in the film directed by Aaron Sorkin

The Trial of the Seven in Chicago,

where he plays the activist Abbie Hoffman, someone who he does not hesitate to describe as a buffoon, but in this case from the sixties.

"A great speaker and political activist who used humor to get complicated ideas to an unmotivated audience."

The same as now?

“The actors, the comedians that I know in the US are very aware of the transformation that their society is undergoing.

It's not just me for being British.

We are on a precipice from which we can see the end of democracy before falling.

And we are only getting worse with more people dying from covid and more politicians ignoring the scientific community.

On top of that, everything can get worse depending on the elections.

That is why it is difficult for me to be more optimistic ”.

Source: elparis

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