![]() SAM SANDERS, BYLINE: I spent a whole lot of time talking with Eric Andre about the nuts and bolts of making a prank film. NPR's Sam Sanders spoke with Eric Andre about it on his podcast, It's Been A Minute, and we're going to share an excerpt of their chat here. But unlike a lot of prank comedies you might have seen before, there is a big difference with this one. "Bad Trip" is a buddy road trip film meets rom-com meets hidden camera prank show featuring Eric and the actors Tiffany Haddish and Lil Rel Howery. 1 on the Netflix charts a few times since its release. She is a much-needed reminder that love is stronger than hate.The comedian Eric Andre released a new film on Netflix last month. Evans passed away shortly after the interaction, and the film is dedicated in her memory. Apparently, this is one of the only times Sacha actually broke character and told Evans about the gag. She explains that Jews aren’t evil, that the Holocaust did happen, and she’s a survivor. Evans embraces Borat with empathy and love. Borat dresses up as an over-the-top antisemitic Jewish stereotype and informs Evans that the Holocaust never happened because Facebook told him so. Really, that is not important right now.…It really doesn’t matter how we got to this moment.” Yep, this pastor completely ignores the incest detail and instead says, “God is the one who creates life, and God doesn’t make accidents.” Judith Dim EvansĪ supremely offensive scene that turns into perhaps the best moment of the film is when Borat visits Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta, Georgia, and meets Holocaust survivor Judith Dim Evans. Bright insists that nevertheless, they need to have the baby, saying, “I don’t need to hear any more of that. They meet with Pastor Jonathan Bright and explain to him that Borat “put a baby inside” of Tatur, clearly stating that they are father and daughter and therefore the fetus is a product of incest. Tatur swallows a plastic baby that was decorating the top of a cupcake, so Borat takes her to a crisis-pregnancy center-but it’s actually an anti-abortion clinic. Yet another interaction that is so surreal and awful you wish it were a hoax. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise, he is a stone-cold liar.” At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment. When this scene hit Twitter a few days before the film dropped, Giuliani tried to defend himself by calling the video “a complete fabrication. For reasons unknown, they wind up in a bedroom, where he says, “You can give me your phone number and your address.” Then, as he removes his microphone, he reclines on the bed and sticks his hand FAR down his pants for WAY TOO LONG. The catch is that she’s…playing a 15-year-old.ĭuring the interview, Giuliani is shown drinking Scotch and talking about how the Chinese manufactured COVID-19. Like…there’s video evidence of Giuliani sticking his hands down his pants alone in a hotel room with Tatur ( the actress Maria Bakalova), who is posing as a journalist. Borat caught former New York City mayor (and President Trump’s personal attorney) Rudy Giuliani in an extremely awkward situation. ![]() Yeah, this scene was…really, really, really bad. It’s very unclear how much of the film is real, so let’s break down which of the wildest scenes one thousand percent happened IRL-you know, ahead of the Oscars this weekend in case it wins that Best Adapted Screenplay nom! Lucky for all of us stuck at home with plenty of time to ponder, the same dynamic applies to Borat 2. ![]() And as a viewer, part of the thrill and hilarity was trying to figure out whether the folks onscreen were in on the joke or completely clueless. But obviously, I had to watch…I mean, what else am I supposed to do while social distancing? Another effing Zoom?Īs you probably already know, the ingenuity of the first Borat movie was that in most scenes, Sacha interacted with real people (not actors) who were totally unaware that they were participating in a gag. My initial reaction when I learned that Sacha secretly filmed Borat 2 while the world as we know it fell apart was “claaassic 2020.” Being constantly shocked and surprised are literally the only constants of this godforsaken time. Like pretty much everything else that has happened the past 365 days, Borat’s return to America was a complete curveball. In a brand-new episode of What the F*ck Is Going On, 2020/2021? Amazon released Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 comedic satire Borat.
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