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Borat

October 2024

  • Maria Bakalova.

    The G2 interview
    ‘People are complex’: Maria Bakalova on Donald Trump – and playing Ivana in The Apprentice

    Her breakout role in the Borat sequel grabbed attention after a scene with Rudy Giuliani on a bed. Now she’s playing Trump’s ex-wife in a controversial biopic – but insists it’s not a political film

December 2022

  • Sacha Baron Cohen attending the reception for the Kennedy Center honorees hosted by President Joe Biden at the White House.

    Borat targets Trump, Ye and antisemitism at Kennedy Center Honors

    Sacha Baron Cohen skit receives mixed response at ceremony for lifetime achievements in the arts

February 2021

  • Sacha Baron Cohen in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2020. (Buck Ellison/The New York Times)<br>Sacha Baron Cohen in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2020. Reviving his Borat character and playing the social activist Abbie Hoffman, the actor feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.” Baron Cohen’s riotous characters have perhaps masked his dramatic abilities. (Buck Ellison/The New York Times) Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevine For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

    Sacha Baron Cohen: 'If you’re protesting against racism, you’re going to upset some racists'

    Stopping Trump, reforming Facebook and risking his life to make a Borat sequel. In an exclusive interview, the actor unveils his plans for a revolution – and reveals how it feels to come out as himself

January 2021

  • Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean and Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat.

    Why Mr Bean and Borat are ready to retire

    Rowan Atkinson and Sacha Baron Cohen are killing off two of comedy’s most indelible characters. They’ve picked the perfect time

October 2020

  • Sacha Baron Cohen in a scene from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    'Very nice!': Kazakhstan adopts Borat's catchphrase in new tourism campaign

    An official said the phrase, popularised by Sacha Baron Cohen’s character, sums up the vast tourism potential of the nation in a ‘short, memorable way’
  • Totally committed … Maria Bakalova.

    Now you've seen it
    Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers

    Sacha Baron Cohen’s second journey out of Kazakhstan is with a spirited new sidekick, and they land immediately in political and social hot water

    • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review – cinema's top troll goes baiting in Trump's US

    • Ranked
      Sacha Baron Cohen's films – ranked!

    • Borat praises Donald Trump on Twitter ahead of new film

September 2020

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, in character, at the London film festival premiere of Borat in 2006.

    Borat 2 imminent, reports suggest, with Trump, Epstein and Giuliani as targets

    Sacha Baron Cohen said to have test-screened follow-up to his 2006 hit, which was shot during the pandemic

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

May 2019

  • Borat kidnaps Pamela Anderson

    Borat caused Pamela Anderson's divorce, says Sacha Baron Cohen

    The comedian confirms that Kid Rock was so incensed by the 2006 comedy that he filed to end his marriage to Baron Cohen’s co-star

April 2019

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, as Borat, and Scott Morrison

    Explain it to me quickly
    Very nice? Why the Australian PM did a Borat impression in parliament

    Scott Morrison channelled Sacha Baron Cohen. For our series Explain It To Me Quickly, one Guardian Australia staffer asked another to explain why … quickly

July 2018

  • Who Is America? (2018) Poster image

    Will Sacha Baron Cohen's undercover series be the TV event of the year?

    Shot in secrecy, the satirist’s new show Who Is America? sees him take aim at Trump and the US political elite. It looks set to be something truly special

June 2017

  • Sex and the City 2

    Ghosts, liberated women and Morgan Freeman: the films banned for odd reasons

    Wonder Woman is the latest blockbuster to fall foul of the censors. From Borat to Sex and the City 2, here are some of the more peculiar film bans

January 2017

  • Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder.

    Why a film celebrating McDonald's is the perfect start for Trump cinema

    The Founder, about the man who built McDonald’s, is a fitting start to the new era. But Hollywood’s love affair with Trump’s kind of anarcho-capitalism began long ago

December 2016

  • From left: Bad Santa, Back to the Future, Sisters, Razing Arizona, Mrs. Doubtfire.

    The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians

    From the canonical to the controversial, and in no particular order, we asked 10 standups to pick 50 movies that make them giggle. They made some surprising choices…

May 2016

  • Composite: Owen Wilson, director Larry Charles and Luke Wilson

    Borat director locked into Luke and Owen Wilson prison comedy

    Larry Charles, best known for working with Sacha Baron Cohen, will take on the project set to start shooting this summer

April 2016

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, from left, in Grimsby, The Dictator, Ali G, Brüno and Borat.

    Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen

    He gave us Ali G, Borat and fermented horse urine, all on the way to establishing himself as the king of shock comedy. But his latest film, Grimsby, is a huge flop. Where did it all go wrong?

March 2016

  • Marilyn Monroe stands over a New York City subway grate in The Seven Year Itch.

    Our top 10 iconic underwear moments

    As the V&A launches an exhibition of underwear design, we choose our own lingerie highlights
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