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The success ofBoratprovided a particular challenge to the makers of its sequel.
The newBorat: Subsequent Moviefilmgets around this in a variety of ways.
It involves Tutar, a hotel room, and Rudy Giuliani.
First, some backstory.
(One suspects the straitlaced Pence is probably too savvy to fall for Baron Cohens tricks anyway.)
They turn to plan B Giuliani.
As hisboozy brunch with my colleague Olivia Nuzziproved, the former mayor is an altogether more appealing mark.
To Rudy, indiscretion is the better part of valor.
So they set up an interview in a New York hotel room.
Shes flirtatious from the jump, calling Rudy one of her greatest heroes and touching his knee.
Hes eating it up.
She asks him how America can prevent something like the coronavirus from happening again.
China manufactured the virus and let it out, he tells her.
And they deliberately spread it all over the world.
He claims Trumps coronavirus strategy has saved a million lives.
From there, things get uncomfortably intimate.
Tutar explains that she was nervous, since shes never been in front of the camera before.
I think youre gonna look pretty good, he tells her.
He puts his hand on her hip as she untucks his shirt to help him with his own mike.
In real life, Giuliani certainly seemed to think hed gotten the better of the encounter.
I only later realized it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen.
(Both that response, andhis press secretarys, elided the matter of Bakalova.)
(1) The Borat video is a complete fabrication.
If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.
In July, Giuliani emphasized that he was a fan of Baron Cohen and Borat.
That is probably not still the case!
