Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat Sagdiyev and there will be no future films.
The 49-year-old actor and comedian told Entertainment Tonight that he feels it is too dangerous to continue the character.
“It’s got too dangerous,” Baron Cohen said of the filming. “There were a few times I had to put on a bulletproof vest to go shoot a scene, and you don’t want to do that too many times in your life. I was pretty lucky to get out this time, so no “I will not do it again. I will stick to the pieces of text.”
Baron Cohen first portrays the fictional journalist from Kazakhstan 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 entertain people who do not know that it is a character.
Sacha Baron Cohen as his fictional character Borat.
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Baron Cohen once again puts on the iconic mustache for the 2020 sequel, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”
At one scene, Baron Cohen says he was worried about his safety.
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“The night before something like that – that rally – you try to go through everything that can go wrong,” he recalls. “In a normal scene like we do, we try to make sure ‘How do I make my actions real. Did I do my research? How do I make sure the accent is perfect?’ In this one you go, ‘” “Okay, if there’s a bunch of guys with guns coming from that side of the stage, do I have a way to get out? What happens 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 ‘Borat’.
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He wore a bulletproof vest to the scene and revealed that the production team had made him an amplifier that was basically bombproof ‘to hide in, just in case.
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“I do not want to do it again. I got away with it. I do not strive for my happiness again,” Baron Cohen admitted.
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 plays Cohen’s daughter in the film, is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical or comedy.