Why Sacha Baron Cohen Decided To Come Back With Borat
KEY POINTS
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Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed that he decided to resurrect his character Borat after seeing all the things happening under President Donald Trump s administration.
Speaking in an interview with Variety, the 49-year-old actor discussed some specific aspects of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and why Trump’s presidency was the best time to come out with a sequel. Cohen noted that he saw a lot of threats to democracy and thought that it was the perfect moment to bring the character out.
neil: these are the bullet points. beto has that, knows his bullet points. not in the same way, but he doesn t have, you know, four years of having a base neil: you know, chris, i think republicans, though, underestimate beto at peril. i agree. neil: that was the consensus view, barack obama had only been a senator a couple of years, and, you know, the last guy who went on to lose a senate race and went on to win the presidential race was abraham lincoln. i am not comparing the two at all, but history has a way to have making fun it does, but if i m cory booker or kamala harris, i m really angry about the attention he s getting. the other people that are angry are texas democrats because he s spent more time campaigning in iowa than he did in texas. he did not help the democrats statewide in neil: he was very confident he could tip that state blue. well, there is a lot of reasons why what happened in texas in 2018 happened.