Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohenis an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter. A graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, Baron Cohen is most widely known for creating and portraying four fictional characters: Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen. Like his idol Peter Sellers, he uses a variety of accents and guises for his characters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 October 1971
CityLondon, England
thinking class community
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
real character careers
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
enjoyed
I enjoyed being anonymous.
comedian tendencies jew
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
responsibility thinking insulting
I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.
done interviews
I've never really done any interviews as myself.
hollywood film
Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.
thinking skills able
I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
responsibility thinking people
On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.
character thinking stuff
I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
dangerous-situations car getaways
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
thinking fake documentaries
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.