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However, at least one scene featured a participant who was at least partially in on the joke. He got around the low-battery by putting the phone on airplane mode and occasionally checking for updates from the film's production team. If you've seen the movie, you know the crew eventually got to him and he managed to jump out of his hiding spot and embarrass Guliani, who was on a bed with his hand in his pants.

The former mayor insists that the footage is a " complete fabrication " and that he was merely tucking in his shirt. On Colbert's show, Baron Cohen encouraged viewers to watch the movie and decide for themselves. Besides Giuliani, Mike Pence is the most high-profile "get" for the Borat sequel, but his appearance is much briefer. The movie's plot finds Borat attempting to deliver his daughter as a gift to the Vice President, so Baron Cohen and his team infiltrated the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering for right-wing politicians, pundits, and media figures.

Pence was one of the featured speakers and Borat had big plans to crash his speech. Later, he changed into a fat suit and mask that made him resemble Donald Trump. The available C-SPAN footage and other social media footage of the event backs up what you see in the movie, with attendees chanting "USA" as Baron Cohen is escorted out with a doll slung over his shoulder. Earlier this year, Baron Cohen made headlines by appearing at a March for Our Rights Rally in Olympia, Washington where onlookers captured video of the comedian performing an original bluegrass song with lyrics about injecting Dr.

Anthony Fauci with "the Wuhan flu. Baron Cohen told the New York Times in an interview that he "lived in character for five days in this lockdown house" and that it was the "the hardest thing" he had to do. Back in June, few knew that the performance was actually part of another Borat movie. After videos from the event went viral, Matt Marshall, one of the organizers for the right-wing group behind the event, gave an interview with NPR that provided a revealing glimpse into how Baron Cohen's team operates when trying to pull off a big stunt like this.

Like, we really let the guard down and trusted them. Jeanise Jones, the year-old Oklahoma City—based woman who looks after Tutar in the film and ultimately encourages her to reject her father's misogynistic worldview, plays a pivotal role in the movie's plot.

But, Jones, who came forward earlier this week with a New York Post headline about feeling "betrayed" by the movie, was, like most of the people in the documentary, fooled by the production team and thought she was filming a more legitimate documentary. And what about those anti-gay comments?

Rowe, who says he hasn't seen the film, didn't disavow them, but instead offered a curious rationale: "As long as [homosexuals] don't mess with me and get me involved, if that's their choice, just have at it. Just don't come in my household and try to demand, as they're doing now, all sorts of things.

All this marriage and this mess. If you want to go live together, go live together, but don't drag everyone else into it. It's, like, before you could just pump your gas, but the thieves ruined it for everyone. Now everyone has to go pay for their gas first. Homosexuals, they want their rights for marriage and all this stuff, and they want respectability.

If you want to live that life, live that life, but don't involve the whole rest of the country. Is Rowe concerned about how he comes off in the film? No one's coming and trying to eat me. The Scene: Borat almost stays at a bed-and-breakfast Where: Though the film suggests the bed-and-breakfast is somewhere between Atlanta and Dallas, it's actually in Newton, Mass.

Borat arrives at a bed-and-breakfast only to realize that, to his horror, the kindly owners are Scared into playing nice, Borat hesitantly takes a bite out of a pastrami and rye sandwich they bring to his bedroom -- then spits it out the minute they turn away. Later that night, convinced that the shape-shifting couple has transformed into a menacing pair of insects, he throws money at them and runs screaming, with his producer Azamat, into the night. What happened: Mariam and Joseph Behar, the proprietors of the kosher bed-and-breakfast, tell Salon that they rented out three rooms to what they thought was a Kazakh documentarian and his film crew.

The location had been scouted and photographed, with the Behars' knowledge, prior to the taping. Speaking on the telephone, Joseph, with Mariam chatting in the background, says they saw the film and thought it "was not anti-Semitic at all.

It was outstanding. I think [Sacha Baron Cohen] is a genius. Though Borat never broke character, and no one in the production let the Behars in on the joke, Joseph found Borat to be "very lovely and very polite, very attractive. Joseph says that he first started to have doubts about Borat's authenticity when Borat told him he was going to be married in Malibu.

The producers did ask the Behars to bring food to Borat's room -- something not usually done for guests -- though they did not say what kind of food to bring. Borat visits etiquette instructor Kathie Martin for advice on appropriate dinner party behavior. Most memorably, Borat regales Martin with Polaroids of his very, very naked, teenage son, which Martin, with preternatural poise, suggests he not show to his fellow dinner party attendees.

What happened: Martin was told by producers that a Kazakh documentarian would like to have a lesson before beginning his travels, so as not to embarrass himself. Martin saw the film on Saturday and told us she found that "certain parts were funny, certain parts were not.

Her first meeting with Borat was canceled after the crew came to Martin's house and encountered technical difficulties -- but not before Martin had prepared a five-course meal for her guest. As for the naked pictures, Martin, polite as always, remarked, "It helped that I was not wearing my glasses. The Southern plantation home was built in and currently functions as an event hall. Among many transgressions that night, Borat insults the wife of Mountain Brook Presbyterian Church pastor Cary Speaker; after remarking on how popular two of the women would be in Kazakhstan, Borat gestures at Speaker's wife and says, "not so much.

What happened: The Birmingham News reports that Borat's dining companions weren't that upset with how they appeared in the film. Speaker, who abruptly left the party after the alleged prostitute arrived, says his attitude is "Hey, he fooled us; it's funny.

Watching this, I'm sure it's funny [to some people]. It was just not funny that night. Streit has not ruled out a lawsuit. The Scene: Borat goes for humor lessons Where: Although the film makes it appear as if Borat's humor lessons took place in New York, he visited with humor coach Pat Haggerty, who lives and works in Washington, D.

Haggerty instructs Borat to not make jokes about the "retard" brother Borat keeps in a cage, and that perhaps it's not the best idea to tell people about having sex with his mother-in-law. Borat also proves himself to be a quick study when it comes to the subtle timing of the "not" joke -- not!

What he said: Haggerty told the BBC News that about halfway through their session he realized "this guy can't be real. Borat sits down with three members of the Veteran Feminists of America, informs them that women have smaller brains than men do, and inquires about "Baywatch.

To view some of the scene, go here. What happened: Linda Stein, Grace Welch and Carole De Saram were told by producers that they would be appearing in a documentary to help women in Third World countries.

Stein says she has mixed feelings about the incident. She finagled her way into an advance screening of the film and found some parts of the film funny, but thinks "the joke appeals more to men than women.

Welch, a yoga instructor, found the whole incident funny. Cohen's Borat act was thoroughly convincing. Though Stein threw him out of the interview twice, she readily admits that "at no point during the whole event, as angry as I may have gotten, did it ever occur to me this was a comedian acting. He doesn't know any better.