‘Borat’ superstar Sacha Baron Cohen was smashed by a bystander in New York last month after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.
Cohen advanced the man and said:
I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.
But the bystander didn’t see the joke and right away punched him on the face and smacked him repeatedly.
He was rescued by actor friend Hugh Laurie who was accompanying Cohen to a New York bar.
A pal of Cohen says, “Sacha couldn’t resist playing the fool as Borat, but picked on the wrong person”.
‘I guess this guy thought he was being attacked by someone unstable and lashed out. Sacha is very lucky he didn’t get a much worse beating.’
The incident took place after Laurie and Cohen appeared on the US TV show Saturday Night Live late last month.
Studio chiefs have warned Cohen to avoid pretending to be Borat on the street. Since the film was launched, he has only appeared in character while promoting the movie.
Cohen is currently in Australia promoting his successful spoof movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat has become the highest grossing comedy of all time.
