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`Giuliani caught in hotel bedroom scene in new ‘Borat’ film
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` Oct 21, 2020 4:15 PM EDT
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`NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani is shown with his hand down his pants after flirting with an actress playing a young woman pretending to
`be a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, a sequel to his hit “Borat” film.
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`The scene shot in a New York hotel room in July — which resulted in Giuliani calling police — includes a moment when Giuliani is seen
`lying on a bed with his shirt untucked and his hand down his pants with the young woman nearby.
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`Giuliani went to the hotel room thinking he was being interviewed about the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response. The young
`woman is flirtatious with him and invites him to the bedroom, which is rigged with hidden cameras.
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`Giuliani then asks for her phone number and address. He lies back on the bed and has his hands in his pants.
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`The hotel room scene ends when Baron Cohen, who was disguised as part of the crew, bursts into the room in an outlandish outfit
`screaming that the young woman is 15 years old. Up to that point, there is no indication she is underage. The character, Borat’s
`daughter, is played by actress Maria Bakalova, who is listed as 24 years old on the Internet Movie Database site, IMDb.com.
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`Giuliani had no immediate comment.
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`The former New York City mayor called police after that encounter, but there is no indication an investigation was launched. Giuliani
`spoke to the New York Post’s Page Six column about the incident in July, but did not mention the bedroom aspect of the encounter.
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`New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who profiled Baron Cohen ahead of the the film’s release, tweeted Wednesday about the
`scene: “It’s even wilder than it sounds. Beyond cringe.”
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`Trolling those close to President Donald Trump is a central theme of the new “Borat” film, a sequel to the 2006 mockumentary that saw
`Baron Cohen’s character travel the United States, espousing sexist, racist and anti-Semitic views, and eliciting similar responses from
`unwitting subjects.
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`For “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of
`Kazakhstan,” Baron Cohen returns as his alter-ego from Kazakhstan in a plot that involves trying to give his daughter as a gift to Vice
`President Mike Pence.
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`The closest Borat gets is the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he shouts to Pence that he’s brought a
`woman for him. Dressed in a Donald Trump costume and with Borat’s daughter, played by Bakalova, slung over his shoulder, Baron
`Cohen is swiftly escorted out by security.
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`That leads to a second scheme involving Giuliani that ends up in the hotel room scene.
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`Giuliani finalized his divorce from his wife of 15 years in December.
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`Baron Cohen has made a history of poking fun at conservative figures. For his 2018 Showtime series “Who Is America,” the British
`comedian got former Vice President Dick Cheney to sign a waterboarding kit. A sketch with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore
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