Published 14:10 IST, January 9th 2021

Sacha Baron Cohen's abandoned plan to prank My Pillow Guy in 'Borat 2' revealed

Sacha Baron Cohen had a plan to trick My Pillow Guy in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Check out the team's plan and read to know more detailed information

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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is a mockumentary comedy movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen. It gave a headline-making scene as team tricked Rudolph Giuliani, former New York City mayor and personal attorney to Donald Trump. w it is revealed that team is all set to prank “My Pillow Guy,” with a fake interview.

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat 2 had an abandoned plan to prank My Pillow Guy

In a recent interview with Variety, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm producer and co-writer, Anthony Hines, disclosed a dropped plan of one-on-one interaction between “My Pillow Guy,” Mike Lindell and Borat’s daughter, Tutar, played by Maria Bakalova. Lindell is founder of ''My Pillow'', a frequent advertiser of Fox News, and an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump. Hines said that y had a “crazy idea” to do a socially distanced interview with Mike Lendell and Borat’s daughter.

He mentioned that as y could t do it indoors, y would have done it in edge of woods or some kind of wasteland. producer described that re would have been a mattress re with a load of MyPillow products and Borat would find Lindell at edge of woods in bed with his daughter. My Pillow Guy would n have to explain “what hell” was going on. He ted that it was just one harebrained alternative to scene that ended up in movie.

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Anthony Hines also revealed or possible targets including Donald Trump Jr and even President of United States of America himself. He said that in team’s “crazy pipe dream world,” Rudolph Giuliani would have been Donald Trump. co-writer explained that y had 20 to 30 people in “Trump universe” that could have been subject of that interview, and possible exception of Trump himself. However, he asserted that Giuliani was one y wanted most.

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Directed by Jason Woliner, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm shows titular character on a mission to offer his daughter, Tutar, as a bride to Former Vice President Mike Pence. cast includes Maria Bakalova, Dani Popescu, Manuel Vieru, Miroslav Toji, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and ors. Based on Borat Sagdiyev by Sacha Baron Cohen, story is by Cohen, Anthony Hines, Nina Pedrad, and Dan Swimer.

14:10 IST, January 9th 2021