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Rudy Giuliani caught in embarrassing bedroom scene in new Borat movie

Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is caught in an embarrassing encounter with a young actress.

Rudy Giuliani's encounter with a young actress in the latest Borat movie Picture: Twitter.
Rudy Giuliani's encounter with a young actress in the latest Borat movie Picture: Twitter.

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been filmed in an embarrassing encounter with a young actress, in the latest Borat movie.

In Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, the encounter appears to leave the 76-year-old Trump ally in a highly compromising situation, caught quite literally with his hands down his pants.

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” out Friday on Amazon Prime, is the sequel to Baron Cohen’s 2006 smash hit, which grossed $260 million, earned an Oscar nomination and spawned endless poorly-punctuated catchphrases.

Filmed in secret this summer as the United States’ coronavirus lockdown eased, the follow-up again sees the British comedian hoodwink members of the public and politicians via his bumbling, offensive reporter alter-ego.

But it is Mr Giuliani who faces the most humiliation in the movie, after he is fooled into meeting 24-year-old actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat’s daughter and in this scene poses as a conservative TV journalist.

The pair meet in a hotel room after their “interview”, but soon the former New York mayor starts holding the young woman’s hands and complimenting her looks before he follows her into the bedroom.

As Mr Giuliani lies down on the bed, appearing to put his hands down his trousers, Borat rushes into the room dressed in lacy pink underwear, telling the embarrassed Mr Giuliani: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you”.

In a July interview with the New York Post, Mr Giuliani said he thought the meeting was a serious interview about the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said he called the police after Baron Cohen entered the room. Mr Giuliani has also insisted he was tucking in his shirt in the embarrassing shot.

“This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit,” Mr Giuliani said.

“It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.

“This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away.

“I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

He added that he was a “fan of some of his movies.”

Sacha Baron Cohen disguised himself as Donald Trump to embarrass Mike Pence. Picture: Amazon Studios.
Sacha Baron Cohen disguised himself as Donald Trump to embarrass Mike Pence. Picture: Amazon Studios.

Mr Giuliani, who introduced the president’s speech to accept his party nomination this August, is far from the only Republican target left red-faced by the movie. Vice President Mike Pence was also embarrassed when Borat, disguised as Donald Trump, gatecrashed a rally with his “daughter” slung over his shoulder, who he offered as a gift.

Baron Cohen described in a recent TIME op-ed how he feared for his life after crashing a gun-rights rally in Washington state for the movie.

Borat leaves his Kasakhstan village for the US. Picture: Amazon Studios,
Borat leaves his Kasakhstan village for the US. Picture: Amazon Studios,

A viral marketing campaign is well under way, including a parody Kazakhstan government Twitter account with messages including “We salute Trump for crush COVID given to him by Democrats” and congratulating “Vice Pussygrabber Mikhael Pence” on his debate performance.

Baron Cohen appeared in character Monday on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, grilling the comedian with a “normal Kazakh plague questionnaire” before conducting an unorthodox physical exam on his host for coronavirus.

While Kimmel was in on the gag, many of Baron Cohen’s victims in the movie are once again unwitting members of the public.

Multiple subjects of the original including a pair of brash, drunken college students sued the filmmakers for conning them into appearing in the film.

The follow-up movie is already the subject of a lawsuit from the estate of a Holocaust survivor who passed away this summer, shortly after she was filmed talking with Baron Cohen by a small fake documentary crew.

Judith Dim Evans appears in the film to educate Borat on the Holocaust and is presented in a positive light.

“Upon learning after giving the interview that the movie was actually a comedy intended to mock the Holocaust and Jewish culture, Ms Evans was horrified and upset,” reads the lawsuit filed by her daughter and seen by AFP.

Baron Cohen, who is Jewish, is an outspoken campaigner against anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, particularly against their spread on social media platforms.

AFP

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