Sacha Baron Cohen made Borat 2 to show the dangers of voting Donald Trump in for a second term – Daily Mail

Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed he made Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm to warn US voters of the ‘dangers’ of voting in President Donald Trump for a second term.

The actor, 49, spoke about the mocumentary with The Sun on Saturday, saying he felt democracy was ‘at a very dangerous point’ under Trump’s administration and he wanted to do something about it before the November election.

He explained: ‘The aim of the movie is to deliver a message. That’s the reason why Borat came out when it did.

‘I thought the thing I can do to warn people is to use my funniest character, my most popular ­character, to show what I thought the dangers of ­voting for Trump were. I felt democracy was at a very dangerous point.’

‘I suppose with this movie I felt I had to be able to look myself in the mirror on [the day after election day] and say to myself, “I did everything I could to protect a political system that I value — democracy”.’ 

Late last year Sacha  revived the beloved character for this year’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the sequel to 2006’s Borat.

He plays a bumbling Kazakh journalist who travels to America to learn more about their culture in the hilarious and at times unbelievable mockumentaries. 

And after filming the movie, the outspoken actor admitted there were a few moments where he feared for his safety.

In a post on Instagram in October, Sacha shared a behind-the-scenes video of himself performing at a Trump rally as Borat.

The crowd quickly realised he was mocking them before angrily turning on him, forcing Sacha to flee the stage, before barricading himself in his trailer and speeding away.

‘This was not the easiest movie to make,’ he captioned the terrifying video.

Another clip from the film quickly went viral as it showed an embarrassing moment involving Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani.

‘Borat’s’ ‘daughter Tutar’ played by Maria Bakalova was interviewing Giuliani for a segment – one that he assumed was a real interview – in a hotel. 

During that sequence he can be seen lying back on a bed and putting his hand down his pants as ‘Tutar’ adjusted his mic – he says, because he was just fixing his shirt.

‘The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment,’ Giuliani snapped on Twitter.

In a recent Variety interview Cohen shared that he was hoping his movie would persuade people to vote against Trump in the 2020 election.

‘I don’t want to egotistically imply that people would watch Borat and not vote for Trump, but that was the aim,’ he dished.

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, with Kamala Harris serving as his Vice President – the first woman to hold the office, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.