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In the "Borat" sequel, Sasha Baron Cohen intends to show "the danger of the movement towards authoritarianism"

In an interview with the New York Times, Sasha Baron revealed why he decided to return to the screens of Borat. According to the British comedian, the first "Borat" helped to reveal people's inner prejudices, but he was pushed to create a sequel by the U.S. movement towards authoritarianism.

"In 2005, you needed a character like Borat misogynist, racist and anti-Semitic to make people reveal their inner prejudices. Now these internal prejudices are obvious. Racists are proud to be racist, Cohen says, calling Donald Trump an open racist, open fascist. My goal here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism. The goal is to make people laugh, but we are showing a dangerous movement toward authoritarianism".

Cohen also said he was waiting for the audience to continue. Among other things, his hero uses a flowerbed near the Trump Hotel as a toilet, and his daughter is kept in a cage. Borat's daughter wonders 'if her cage is better than Melanie's,' and when Borat leads her shopping, he asks to show the department 'No' means yes. When he buys a chocolate cake, he asks for a smiley face that says "Jews will not replace us".

The most difficult was the episode in which Borat lived for five days with two conspiracy theorists in the midst of a pandemic. All this time Cohen did not leave the image of Borat: "I woke up, had breakfast, lunch, dinner, fell asleep like Borat when I lived in a house with these two supporters of conspiracy theories".

Not all of Borat's jokes passed without a trace. Thus, the creators of "Borat 2" were sued by the heirs of the deceased Holocaust victim Judith Dim Evans, who appeared in the sequel because she thought that she was being interviewed for a serious documentary film. The lawsuit claims that Ms. Evans was frightened and upset" when she learned that the film was actually a comedy aimed at mocking the Holocaust and Jewish culture.

The lawsuit was filed by the daughter of Michelle Dim Saint-Pierre against Amazon Prime and the studio Oak Springs Productions. She demands to remove the scenes from Evans and reimburse at least 75 thousand dollars.

Borat is a native of Kazakhstan, who came to the U.S. to shoot a report on "the world's greatest country". Borat travels around the states and communicates with locals, often exposing them in an uncomfortable light with his behavior. The sequel was filmed during the pandemic, so there was a minimum number of people working on the set. In addition, some of the scenes posed a danger to the actors, and Cohen wore a bulletproof vest for several days.