By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2020 12:52 pm EST
There is an explicit political connection in this movie: the film not only features the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Guiliani, but it also explores the relationship between Donald Trump and the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Evidently Vice President Mike Pence factors into the narrative as well. We’re guessing Baron Cohen was able to make these guys look pretty foolish, and that’s a driving force behind the push for this to be released by the election.
Deadline calls Borat 2 “the first movie made during the COVID-19 shutdown” and says Baron Cohen wore a bulletproof vest on two different shooting days because of the dangerous situations he got himself in while filming.
As far as the plot goes, Borat is no longer the little-known Kazakh TV personality he played in the original 2006 movie. This time, the public knows who he is, so the character has to go “undercover” to interview people. We’re still not sure if original Borat director Larry Charles was behind the camera on this follow-up, but at least we know there’s only a month left until we find out.
