Yahoo News Sacha Baron Cohen explains the "hardest thing" he had to do while filming for Borat 2
Sacha Baron Cohen's infamous comic creation Borat is returning to our screens for a secretly-filmed sequel titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – and you just know that he's going to try and up the ante.
Considering the first film saw Cohen's Borat mingling with some potentially dangerous characters and trying to provoke a reaction out of them, we imagine that the filming for Subsequent Moviefilm (we're not writing the whole title every time) involved a few hairy moments.
Obviously the actor doesn't want to spoil too much of the film, but he did open up about the most difficult bit of filming to The New York Times.
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"The hardest thing I had to do was, I lived in character for five days in this lockdown house," he explained.
"I was waking up, having breakfast, lunch, dinner, going to sleep as Borat when I lived in a house with these two conspiracy theorists. You can't have a moment out of character."
The first Borat came out in 2006, and obviously the world is quite a different place nowadays, meaning the star's approach has had to change as well.
He explained: "In 2005, you needed a character like Borat who was misogynistic, racist, antisemitic to get people to reveal their inner prejudices. Now those inner prejudices are overt. Racists are proud of being racists.
"My aim here was not to expose racism and antisemitism. The aim is to make people laugh, but we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism."
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan will be released on Amazon Prime Video on October 23.
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