Borat 2: Sacha Baron Cohen hid in men’s toilet for several hours ahead of Mike Pence scene
Actor crashed VP’s speech at Conservative conference
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Your support makes all the difference.Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed the preparation that went into the Mike Pence scene in Borat 2.
In the film, which was released last year, Borat crashes Vice President Pence’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He can be seen dressed as Donald Trump and carrying a limp woman over his shoulder, shouting, “I've got the girl for you!” before he is removed by security.
“I’m often asked, ‘How does an actor prepare for a scene?’” Cohen told the Los Angeles Times. “And I prepared by waking up at one in the morning, driving to a motel, sitting in a chair for six hours while a prosthetics team changed my face to Donald Trump’s and then, yes, sneaking into CPAC and staying in a men’s lavatory for a number of hours.”
On how he spent the several hours in the venue’s toilet stall wearing a 54-inch-waist fat suit, Cohen explained: “I had a phone, and I had one Coca-Cola. And I put little lines on the Coke bottle for how much I could drink per hour. In the meantime, I became familiar with the inner workings of the right-wing man more than anyone around. I know their diets. They need more roughage. It was a little too lively in there.”
Last week, Baron Cohen said he made Borat 2 ahead of the US general election because he “felt democracy was in peril”.
The film targeted the Trump administration’s bungling response to the coronavirus pandemic and the fascism among his supporters. It also included a now-infamous interview with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
He also said he believes it’s time to hang up his character’s handlebar moustache.
“I brought Borat out because of Trump,” he said. “There was a purpose to this movie, and I don’t really see the purpose to doing it again. So yeah, he’s locked away in the cupboard.”
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