On a Borat Shoot, Even the Director’s in Disguise

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On this episode of the GoodOnePodcast, Jason Woliner discusses directing 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' in character and why Maria Bakalova deserves an Oscar

Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Amazon Studios On the set of a Sacha Baron Cohen project, it’s not only the people in front of the camera that are acting. To effectively create reality for both the eventual viewer and — more importantly — the person Cohen is trying to dupe, everyone on set has to play a character.

Jenna came in with a lot of the idea, and then the room kind of tossed it around and punched it up. It was like, Well, what if we could have a situation where she eats a baby doll or something like that? She’s explaining it to this pastor there who is kind of masquerading as a medical professional or whatever, and she’s saying, “I have a baby inside me, I need to take it out,” and then she reveals that her father is the one who got her pregnant.

So we then set about finding a place that would do this, and that took months and months and months. It was one of the hardest things for the field team to book because these places are so non-trusting of when a company comes in and says, “We want to film you.” There’s all these things that the field team does that are a very delicate process. And then, finally, we found a place, and even after that, there were hours and hours and hours that went into that day that kind of all led up to that.

There are all these things that we do, that Sacha does before the cameras are filming. There’s a lot of reality-setting. I’ll tell you one example: This is the first day of shooting. When we’re in the hair salon and the hairdresser is like, “Can I see your hair?” and Maria pulls her skirt up, it’s this very uncomfortable moment. Right after that, the woman looked over with a real What the fuck is this? look on her face. They walked in there, and she’s flashing her.

 

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