Reminder: It’s a good idea to charge your phone before you use it to shoot the biggest scene in your movie.
The big centerpiece in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm wasn’t just big — it made headline news. The scene comes towards the end, with our antihero’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar (played by Maria Bakalova) scoring an interview with the president’s personal attorney and former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani — one that soon goes south, to put it mildly. But they almost screwed it up, star Sacha Baron Cohen told Stephen Colbert on A Late Show Monday night. So what happened? Well, they almost had nothing to shoot it with. The scene finds Giuliani having a bit too much fun in a one-on-one with Tutar, who has rebranded herself as a fawning member of rightwing media. The shocking part isn’t when Giuliani tells her that China created COVID-19; it’s when the two relocate to the hotel bedroom, where he gets a little grabby and even unbuckles his trousers, putting his hands down his pants.
