Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed he was nearly caught out by security while dressed as Donald Trump at a conservative event.
The actor recently reprised his role as a hapless Kazakh journalist who inserts himself into wacky and dangerous situations in America for Borat 2.
In one scene, Baron Cohen transforms himself into Trump – with the help of prosthetics and a fat suit – to go undercover at the Conservative Political Action Conference. While getting past security, however, the actor had to tone down the disguise and only wear the fat suit.
Speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Baron Cohen recalled a security officer scanning him with a wand that beeped when it moved past his chest.
“I was terrified, obviously, the moment they touch my body – it's a fat suit,” he said. “So I wouldn't have been allowed in.”
When asked what the beep was, Baron Cohen thought on his feet and said it was a pacemaker, but the wand beeped again when it moved past his abdomen, and the actor couldn’t think of another excuse,
To Baron Cohen’s relief, the guard said: “Well, hold on, it's the wire to the pacemaker, yeah?”
Baron Cohen said “of course” and he was let into the event.
He then spent “five hours hiding in the men's bathroom” where he listened to “conservative men go to the toilet”.
Making a quip about a senior Trump adviser, he said: “Stephen Miller, if you're watching this, you need more fibre in your diet. It shouldn't take that long.”
Elsewhere in the comedy, there is a lengthy scene in which Rudy Giuliani – Donald Trump’s personal attorney and advisor– is filmed interacting with Borat’s daughter, Tutar (played by Maria Bakalova), in a way that many have deemed inappropriate.
Baron Cohen also recently revealed how that scene nearly went wrong because of an uncharged phone.
