WENN is reporting that security at a Wichita, Kansas airport was put on “red alert” when a “European man” was “[stripped] down to tight shorts and [danced] in the lobby of Wichita Airport.”
Baron Cohen is filming a movie as his flaming Austrian TV personality Bruno, and the Wichita locals didn’t take kindly to his half-dressed invasion of the airport. They also had no idea who he is. I found the original story about this on Kansas.com, and there’s no mention of Baron Cohen or Bruno, so it’s safe to say that more people are fooled by this character than his better-known Kazakh incarnation, Borat:
Officials at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport are rewriting their policy on commercial filming inside the terminal after a film crew stripped down and started dancing at the airport.
The crew had permission from the airport to film a scene on March 18 based on a “European man” visiting America.
But security workers became concerned when they began dancing in tight short shorts, kissing and fighting in the lobby.
Security couldn’t find anything illegal about the performance, but asked the crew to leave.
Brad Christopher, assistant director of airport operations, says it won’t be as easy to film at the airport in the future.
[From Kansas.com]
I love how this is reported completely straight-faced, and they have no idea that it was comic Baron Cohen, calling him a “European man.”
At least one celebrity was said to be fooled by Bruno for the upcoming film. Mike Walker reports in the current issue of the National Enquirer that Ben Affleck called up comedian Sarah Silverman and told her that he did an interview with an “openly gay European fashion journalist” who asked him inappropriate questions like “how do you like (n-words)?” Sarah clued him in that it was Sacha Baron Cohen in his Bruno character. I’m not so quick to believe that Affleck wasn’t in on it, but maybe we’ll see how good an actor he is once the movie comes out.
Here’s a clip of Bruno interviewing some Christian guys, thanks to Hollywood.tv for linking it. It really is religion day today.
OMG, that clip is hilarious!! All the cod-Austro/German – ‘he make a scheisse und trunken the spermen’!! Can’t wait to see this.
I loved “Borat” and can’t wait to see this movie!
I will be first in line to see the movie.
Am I the only one uncomfortable with this? I did enjoy bits of Borat and I LOVE Sacha’s characterizations, I just would have to be on the receiving end of a joke like that. I don’t think it’s fair for people not to know what they’re getting into.
“Ben called up Sarah Silverman…”
You should specify that you mean Ben Affleck here. You don’t say that until the end of the paragraph.
I’d hate to be on the receiving end of Cohen’s shtick, but damn is it funny.
HEEEE. I love him. That clip was great.
Simon I thought I fixed that, thanks!
It is uncomfortable, just as Borat was, but DAMN that man is funny.
Great. Now *ALL* gays can look forward to additional mocking all next year. Thanks, Sacha. Jerk.
Are you not missing the point there, adamblast? What BC is doing is essentially ridiculing and highlighting people’s prejudices about gay people. Is that not a good thing?
Cohen is a BRILLIANT performance artist. The level of discomfort and world awareness he generates in his “victims” and audiences is the whole point of his art –like that of any fine art. I’d much rather be upset and entertained by his kind of creativity than the lame, gross, gory, gratuitous vulgarity of 99 percent of the stagnant “pop culture” media flying around today.
This movie is going to be so great. Sacha Baron Cohen is the funniest MFer alive. Go Bruno!!!