Sacha Baron Cohen decides to retire Borat and Ali G. I’m not too surprised though, after all the whole idea of both characters is to catch people at their most unaware times. And since Borat and Ali G got so popular, it’s probably hard for him to continue his act.
RIP Borat And Ali G
Sacha Baron Cohen is retiring the outrageously anti-Semitic, homophobic Kazakh journalist Borat as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.
Cohen readily admits he is more comfortable talking in the guise of the characters he has created, but unfortunately for him, both Ali G and Borat have had their day. Too many people know them and he reluctantly acknowledges that he can no longer retreat behind their personas.
“When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing,” the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper’s Friday edition. “It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it’s fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I ‘get’ with Borat again, so it’s a kind of self-defeating form, really.”
“It’s upsetting, but the success has been great and better than anything I could have dreamed of.”
Source: DailyStab
(Borat DVD packaging looks pirated.)
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