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- Sacha Baron Cohen told Stephen Colbert on the “Late Show” he was hiding in a specially constructed hideaway in a wardrobe that locked internally during Rudy Giuliani’s hotel room interview for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”
- As part of the film, Giuliani was being interviewed by 24-year-old actor Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar, and meets Giuliani as a news reporter.
- Baron Cohen told Colbert that Giuliani had a security guard sweep the room before the interview, but the guard didn’t find him hiding in the wardrobe.
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Rudy Giuliani had a security guard sweep the hotel room where he did his interview for the “Borat” sequel, but Sacha Baron Cohen told Stephen Colbert on the “Late Show” that the guard — a former police officer — didn’t find him hiding in a wardrobe.
Baron Cohen told Colbert he was in a specially constructed hideaway in a wardrobe during Giuliani’s interview with 24-year-old actor Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar, a news reporter. In scene from the interview in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Giuliani drinks scotch with Tutar and at one point appears to have his hands down his pants.
Ahead of the interview, Giuliani had a security guard sweep the room, Baron Cohen said, but didn’t find Baron Cohen in the wardrobe, which locked internally.
“I was in there for the entire scene,” he told Colbert. “My only means of communication was that I would jump out at a necessary point. I would know what [Giuliani] was doing via text messages with the director.”
Baron Cohen added that the security guard sat outside the room during the full interview.
"Rudy thought he was alone with her," Baron Cohen told Colbert. "The security guard, ex-cop, sits outside the room, ensuring that no one could come in and out, which is actually even more scary, when you think about it, for her."
Giuliani defended himself after news circulated about his appearance in "Borat," in which he called the clip a "complete fabrication" of what actually happened.
"I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment. At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate," Giuliani wrote in a tweet. "If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar."
When Colbert asked if he had anything to say about Giuliani's comments, Baron Cohen said: "Well, he said that he did nothing inappropriate, and you know, my feeling is if he sees that as appropriate, then heaven knows what he's intended to do with other women in hotel rooms with a glass of whiskey in his hand."
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