Of all the scenes from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Subsequent Movieflim, the one that shows Rudy Giuliani putting his hand down his pants in the company of the Kazakh journalist’s teenage daughter caught the most attention. However, on Monday night, Baron Cohen revealed to Stephen Colbert that the infamous scene nearly fell apart.
“The interview starts and I switch on the phone and there’s only 3% battery and I go, ‘Hold on we’ve got Rudy Giuliani, we’ve got the president’s lawyer, we’ve got this scene – this is the climax of the movie and no one thought it might be worth charging the phone?’,” he said on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Baron Cohen said that the phone, which he kept alive for the rest of the Giuliani interview by switching on airplane mode, was the only way he could know what has happening...
“The interview starts and I switch on the phone and there’s only 3% battery and I go, ‘Hold on we’ve got Rudy Giuliani, we’ve got the president’s lawyer, we’ve got this scene – this is the climax of the movie and no one thought it might be worth charging the phone?’,” he said on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Baron Cohen said that the phone, which he kept alive for the rest of the Giuliani interview by switching on airplane mode, was the only way he could know what has happening...
- 10/27/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
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