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Sacha Baron Cohen on the 'Borat' Sequel and Playing Abbie Hoffman - The New York Times

Sacha Baron Cohen on the 'Borat' Sequel and Playing Abbie Hoffman - The New York Times

Sacha Baron Cohen on the 'Borat' Sequel and Playing Abbie Hoffman - The New York Times
Oct 17, 2020 5 mins, 26 secs

Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.

Sacha Baron Cohen, who once dreamed of being a chef, loves to cook for his family.

Sacha Baron Cohen is an observant Jew who speaks Hebrew and works with the Anti-Defamation League on “Stop Hate for Profit,” a campaign to stem the bile on social media.

Sacha Baron Cohen is Zooming in for an interview, sporting a black baseball cap, black T-shirt and a Covid-o’clock shadow.

We talk for two hours about everything from his riotous “Borat” sequel to how he fell in love with his wife, the flame-haired actress Isla Fisher, to how he prepared to play Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix movie, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” to how he decided to call out Mark Zuckerberg and “the Silicon Six.”?

Baron Cohen proves that’s not so.

Baron Cohen, who turned 49 this past week, said, “Obviously, I’ve realized that I’ve had a longstanding distaste for the president.

Baron Cohen reached out to Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the A.D.L., who persuaded the star to give the keynote at last year’s A.D.L.

More than anyone in public life today, he exposes bias — whether it’s anti-Semitism, homophobia or rank racism — for what it is, shameful and wrenching and ignorant.” (In fact, Mr. Baron Cohen used Hebrew and some Polish as a stand-in for the Kazakh language in Borat.).

“If Facebook were around in the 1930s,’’ he said, “it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ‘solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem.’”.

Baron Cohen wrangling celebrities.

He added that “it was the first time I’d ever given a major speech in my own voice but I felt like I had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.

Baron Cohen actually started studying anti-Semitism at Cambridge University, when he wrote his thesis on “the Black-Jewish alliance” and identity politics in the Civil Rights movement.

Baron Cohen said of the man who co-founded the Yippies and preached flower power.

While he calls himself “this comedian who’s dabbled in a bit of acting over the years,” Mr.

Baron Cohen is actually, like all great clowns — yes, he went to clown school, L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier — able to switch easily from light to dark.

Baron Cohen shot his scene on the witness stand reminded him of the day Jack Nicholson shot his courtroom scene in “A Few Good Men,” noting, “Everyone wanted to watch; 120 extras didn’t care that the camera wasn’t on them, they stayed to watch.”.

Baron Cohen has been compared to a raunchy de Tocqueville and he said he did see a huge change in American society from the time he first went out to shoot “Borat” 15 years ago to the time he made the sequel.

Racists are proud of being racists.’’ When the president is “an overt racist, an overt fascist,’’ he said, “it allows the rest of society to change their dialogue, too.

He said he moved in with two conspiracy theorists for a few days for the new “Borat” to show “that they’re ordinary folks who are good people, who have just been fed this diet of lies.

But in the new “Borat,’’ filmed in part during the pandemic, he said “the hardest thing I had to do was, I lived in character for five days in this lockdown house.

“Obviously, I’m wearing a fat suit,” the comedian said.

Baron Cohen improvised that it was because of his defibrillator.

He said that when he was presenting “Borat” to streaming services, several were concerned by the political content and the idea of running it before the election.

Playing a prank at the 2012 Oscars, dressed up as his character in the movie “The Dictator,” he dumped the cremation “ashes” of Kim Jong-il — really just flour — on Ryan Seacrest’s tuxedo.

Baron Cohen “in the face so many times, he wouldn’t have known what happened.” He said the comedian should have ended up in the hospital.

Baron Cohen said, “I remember my late father watching Trump on the campaign trail in 2016.

Baron Cohen filmed her lessons for a video — “Exercise for the Over 60’s” — and would send her a bouquet of flowers every week until she died.

He said that his father, a native of Wales who was an editor on Fleet Street for a periodical called New Middle East, before he went into the clothing business, sat with him at the kitchen table, when he was still living at home, to edit his first Ali G script.

Baron Cohen said, laughing, “was so unfashionable that many of the brands actually pulled their clothes out of my dad’s shop when they wanted to become fashionable again.”.

Gerald Baron Cohen lived to see the son’s success.

Baron Cohen said, when I remind him about the encounter.

He said that his father grew up in poverty, but his parents worked hard to get Sacha and his two older brothers into a good high school and Sacha did well enough on his tests and in his Cambridge interview to get a coveted slot to study history!

Baron Cohen briefly worked as a model.

“Believe it or not,” he said, sounding a bit sheepish, “I did a tiny bit of work during a time where they didn’t want models who looked like models.”?

Baron Cohen, has said that it’s difficult to embarrass her husband.

Baron Cohen believes, as Abbie Hoffman said, that “Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”.

Baron Cohen explained that his aim was “to challenge and mock the absurdity of the extreme left, too,” faulting “the ineffectiveness of extremists on the left who are unable to ask a simple question because there’s so many qualifications before every sentence so that they don’t offend anyone.”.

Baron Cohen.

Baron Cohen how two A-list stars, who have three children, make it work.

He mused that “it seems bizarre that we’re still married in Hollywood after so many years.’’.

Baron Cohen, “I might try exercising again because I haven’t done that for seven months.”

Sacha Baron Cohen: Correct

Listen, I actually tried to get that movie, to rewrite it, to appear in it

She texted me after the movie and I said, “How did it go down?” And she goes, “Great, though I’m getting divorced.” I thought it was a joke, but it was actually true

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