Sacha Baron Cohen has finished playing Borat Sagdiyev and there will be no more future movies.
The 49-year-old actor and comedian told Entertainment Tonight that he felt it was “too dangerous” to keep playing the character.
“It got too dangerous,” said Baron Cohen of the filming. “There were a few times when I had to put on a bulletproof vest to start filming a scene, and you don’t want to do that too often in your life. I was lucky enough to be free this time, so no, I do not again. I’ll stick with the scripts. “
Baron Cohen first portrayed the fictional Kazakhstan journalist in 2006’s “Borat,” for which he won a Golden Globe award.
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In the film, Borat travels to America to make a documentary and interviews real people who don’t know it’s a character.
Sacha Baron Cohen as his fictional character Borat.
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Baron Cohen wore the iconic mustache again for the 2020 sequel, “Borat Subsequent Movie Film.”
In one scene, Baron Cohen says he was concerned about his safety.
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‘The night before something like that – that meeting – you try to go through everything that could go wrong,’ he recalls.’In a normal scene like what we do, we try to make sure, ‘I make sure my performance is real, have I done my research, how do I make sure the accent is perfect? In this one, you’re going, “ Okay, if a bunch of guys with guns come up that side of the stage, do I have a way out? What if someone shoots me? What if a bunch of people start shooting? me?'”
Sacha Baron Cohen says he had to wear a bulletproof vest for one scene in the sequel to ‘Borat’.
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Wearing a bulletproof vest for the scene, he revealed that the production team had “made an amp that was, in fact, bombproof” that he could hide in, just in case.
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“I don’t want to do it again. I got away with it. I don’t want to push my luck again,” admitted Baron Cohen.
For his work in the sequel, Baron Cohen was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 2021 for best actor in a musical or comedy and Maria Bakalova, who portrayed Cohen’s daughter in the film, was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. .