‘Borat 2’ Director Jason Woliner Reveals All!

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jason Woliner thought it was a terrible idea to make a sequel to the “funniest movie ever made.” Sacha Baron Cohen hired him to direct it anyway. In our first new episode of 2021, Woliner tells some truly insane stories about the making of ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,’ including how they found Maria Bakalova to play Tutar, why he was forced to bleach his hair blonde and take on a secret, less “globalist” identity, the time he almost got beat up after the debutante ball dance scene and what really happened in that hotel room with Rudy Giuliani.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:06.9	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
0:09.2	and for our first episode of this new year,
0:12.3	I am so excited to be joined by the director
0:15.2	of my favorite comedy movie from last year, Jason Walliner.
0:19.9	It's kind of insane when you think about the fact
0:22.9	that Borat subsequent movie film was Jason's directorial debut. Yes, he has directed tons of
0:30.0	TV episodes over the past decade or so, including on Parks and Recreation, The Last Man
0:35.6	on Earth, what we do in the Shadows, and one of my personal
0:38.8	favorites, Nathan for You.
0:41.0	But taking on the sequel to his all-time favorite comedy was an entirely different animal,
0:47.1	as he breaks down in exhaustive detail on this episode.
0:51.5	I had just way too many questions for Jason about how he and Sasha Baron Cohen
0:56.3	managed to pull off the craziest moments from Borat too, and he was kind enough to reveal
1:02.0	almost all of their secrets. All right, let's get to it. Here's me with Jason Walliner.
1:10.4	Well, I really wanted to talk to you. I mean, I really wanted to talk to you.
1:12.6	I mean, I've wanted to talk to you since the movie came out, but especially now, now that
1:16.9	this year is over, because I really feel like this movie, the Borat sequel, was really the movie
1:22.7	of the year, at least for me and for a lot of people as well.
1:26.0	But it's just, I love it so much.
1:28.5	And yeah, I just, I have a million questions for you.
1:30.4	But just to let's, I guess, start at the beginning.
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