Sacha Baron Cohen Escapes A Right-Wing Crowd With His Life In This Wild ‘Borat 2’ Outtake
"This was not the easiest film to make," Baron Cohen has said.
If you watched all of Borat 2 — AKA Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — and wondered how Sacha Baron Cohen got away with making fun of conservatives to their very faces, then wonder no more.
The film, which dropped last week and happens to be one of 2020’s true masterworks, sees the comedian adopt his Kazakh journalist character and bait everyone from elderly old ladies to a pair of bearded conservative types. What you don’t see in the film is all the time that baiting went horribly wrong.
Luckily, however, Baron Cohen himself has shared some of the near-misses on his Twitter account, and boy oh boy they’re wild.
You might, for example, remember the scene in which Borat — disguised as a country singer — plays a satirical song at a conservative rally. But that was take two. During the first attempt to play the song, young conservatives began to work out what was going on, forcing Baron Cohen and his entourage to make a speedy escape.
Wilder still, they were actually chased, producing the kind of footage you’d expect to see in a found footage zombie apocalypse flick.
I mean, just watch:
This was not the easiest movie to make. #BoratSubsequentMoviefilm pic.twitter.com/oagfJoGjNt
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) October 27, 2020
Dunno about you, but I reckon that’s real cinema right there.