Baron Cohen has dropped his alter ego for the first time since the Borat film was released, for an interview with
Rolling Stone magazine...
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"The joke is not on Kazakhstan," he said. "I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist."
But Cohen - a practising Jew - said the film ridiculed what people were prepared to believed about other cultures. "Borat works essentially as a tool," the former Ali G star said. "By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice, whether it's anti-Semitism or an acceptance of anti-Semitism."
He added: "I think part of the movie shows the absurdity of holding any form of racial prejudice, whether it's hatred of African-Americans or of Jews."
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