Playing Borat can be a dangerous business.
During an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday, Sacha Baron Cohen relived the moment when he was recognised in a costume within a costume during a gun rally in Washington state — and had to make a hasty getaway as the crowd stormed the stage.
Baron Cohen was playing Borat in disguise as a country singer, Country Steve, at the event, which was shot back in June as part of his recently released sequel Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm.
"Word got out that it was me, and then the organizers and a lot of people in the crowd got very angry, they tried to storm the stage — luckily for me, I had hired the security," Baron Cohen tells Colbert in the video above. Read more...
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