Published 12:18 IST, October 29th 2020

Borat 2 babysitter says Maria Bakalova deserves an Oscar for her performance

Borat 2 babysitter recently talked about her experience of being in the film and everything that was unusual about it. Read ahead to know what she said.

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Borat 2 babysitter Jeanise Jones recently opened up about her experience of being in Borat 2 in an interview with Variety. She talked a bit about her concerns over behaviour of Borat's daughter and her overall experience. Re ahe to kw more what Jeanise Jones h to say about being in film. 

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Jeanise Jones started off her interview by mentioning that she hn't seen movie yet and was planning to see it soon. She n ded that initially, all she knew about stint was about a documentary being filmed on a little girl from Kazakh. Jeanise explained how she was shocked to later find out girl was actually a 24-year-old actor. 

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Jeanise n moved on to topic of how she h a strange feeling about entire process and that even her friend h warned her against going. One of Jeanise's friend also mentioned that she might get 'snatched' and she responded by saying that one would do that as she t young and was Black. After a while, she flew to Washington to meet girl. 

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Never thought of calling child services 

Later on, Jeanise was asked if she ever wanted to call child services when she met Borat's daughter. She started off by saying '' and mentioned that she wasn't sure what kind of rights young girl h as she belonged to a third world country. Jeanise also explained that she h suggested that Borat's daughter be taken into a real school to see how boys and girls function in rmal society as she truly thought everything was real. 

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Jeanise n talked about her thoughts when Borat finally walked into house. She mentioned it took her a minute to understand what was happening and ded that it 'threw her off'. Jeanise recalls being doubtful about what was happening and talked about unusual conversation she h with Borat. Finally, she ded that she was paid a total of $3,600 and that she felt amount was quite less for a movie. She also mentioned that actor (Maria Bakalova) playing Borat's daughter deserves an Oscar as she 'definitely' fooled Jeanise.  

12:18 IST, October 29th 2020