BORAT 2 (2020): How Borat’s Targets Feel About Being in His Movie

How Borat’s Targets Feel About Feel About Being in His Movie

In Borat 2 aka Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen pranks everyday Americans as well as real life politicians and public figures in the titular Borat’s mission to redeem the honor his home country.

Baron Cohen has famously gone to great lengths to prank his targets, adopting absurd, outlandish personas such as Borat, Ali G, and Bruno. Many of his unwitting targets aren’t aware of the true use of what is filmed until the final product hits theaters, sometimes to their extreme shame and embarrassment. Here’s how some of them have responded to appearing in Borat 2.

In his effort to groom his daughter into a suitable offering for Mike Pence — ironically referred to as “America’s most famous ladies man” — Borat and his daughter Tutar (Maria Bakalova) meet with Instagram influencer Macy Chanel, who instructs her on the best way to become a “sugar baby” (i.e. a younger woman dating a wealthy older man). Chanel advises Tutar to find a man near death, perhaps “someone who just had a heart attack.” She also advises her to be “submissive” and “weak” to attract men.

Chanel told IndieWire that she had been misled as to the nature of the production she was filming. “I was misled into playing a role and being cast as someone that does not reflect who I am,” she said. “I have enjoyed a successful modeling and acting career where I can play any role given. In this case and probably many others I did not read the ‘fine’ print. As well as lacking the resources to read every casting contract.”

In another prank, Borat becomes despondent upon being led to believe that the holocaust never existed. He decides to kill himself by going to a local synagogue to “wait for the next mass shooting,” while dressing as a crude anti-Semitic caricature complete with an demon wings and an absurdly elongated nose. There he meets Holocaust survivor Judith Dim Evans, who assures him that the Holocaust did in fact happen.

Evans died before the movie premiered, and her estate sued Amazon and Oak Springs Productions — the production companies behind the film — claiming it was filmed “under false pretenses with the intent of appropriating her likeness” and that she was led to believe it was a “serious documentary” about the Holocaust.

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