Rudy Giuliani has defended himself after being shown in a compromising position in a hotel room with a young actress pretending to be a television journalist in Sacha Baron Cohen's latest mockumentary.
Key points:
- Mr Giuliani said his hand was in his pants because he was tucking his shirt
- Vice-President Mike Pence also makes a minor appearance in the film
- The movie comes out on Friday and was designed to influence the US election
The scene in the new Borat sequel, shot in a New York hotel room in July, includes a moment when Mr Giuliani is seen lying on a bed, tucking in his shirt with his hand down his pants with the young woman nearby.
Mr Giuliani, who is US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, 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.
Mr Giuliani then asks for her phone number and address. He lies back on the bed to tuck in his shirt and has his hands in his pants when Baron Cohen rushes in wearing an outlandish outfit.
Baron Cohen, who was disguised as part of the crew, screams that the young woman is just 15 years old.
Up to that point, there was no indication of her being underage.
The character, Borat's daughter, is played by actress Maria Bakalova, who is listed as 24 years old on IMDb.com.
Mr Giuliani defended himself in a Twitter thread on Thursday, ahead of the release of the film on Friday.
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The former New York City mayor called police after that encounter, but there is no indication an investigation was launched.
Mr Giuliani spoke to the New York Post's Page Six column about the incident in July but did not mention the bedroom encounter.
Borat disrupted a Pence speech dressed as Trump
Trolling those close to Mr Trump is a central theme of the new Borat film.
It is a sequel to the 2006 mockumentary that saw Baron Cohen's character travel across the United States, espousing sexist, racist and anti-Semitic views, and eliciting similar responses from unwitting subjects.
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 Mr Pence that he has 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.
That leads to a second scheme involving Mr Giuliani that ends up in the hotel room scene.
Mr Giuliani finalised his divorce from his wife of 15 years in December.
The movie was timed to influence female voters
"My aim here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism," Baron Cohen told the New York Times last weekend, in his only major print interview around the film.
"The aim is to make people laugh, but we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism."
He said he wanted the movie released before the November 3 election because "we wanted it to be a reminder to women of who they're voting for or who they're not voting for".
Baron Cohen has made a career of poking fun at conservative figures.
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For his 2018 Showtime series Who Is America, the British comedian got former vice-president Dick Cheney to sign a waterboarding kit.
You can read more here about the kinds of comedy Cohen used in that series.
A sketch with former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore involved the comedian administering a "paedophile test". Moore has sued over the encounter.
While most of the reviews for the new Borat film were positive, with Variety saying the film delivered a "consistent, coherent feature-length narrative, punctuated with outrageous, unpredictable set pieces," some found the movie tasteless.
"This joke isn't funny anymore," the Hollywood Reporter said, adding that "the Trump years make him [Borat] painfully redundant".
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