Producer Rudy Giuliani tried to police the ‘Borat’ crew after a humiliating scene

Donald Trump’s personal spokesman, Rudy Giuliani, attempted to assassinate New York City police on the “Borat” crew for “extortion” after he was filmed in an embarrassing scene lowering his pants on a bed of a Manhattan hotel, a producer of the film revealed on Saturday.

The scene showed Giuliani lying on his back and stretching towards his crotch while actress Maria Bakalova, played as a journalist, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” was next to an interview with him. Giuliani claims to be wearing his shirt.

When he realized that the crew had changed him, Giuliani “stated that at that time we were trying to extort him [but] we didn’t ask for anything, ”film producer Monica Levinson told a panel of Producers Guild of America, which was first reported by Deadline.

“He called all his New York City police officers and said ‘extortion,’ which was a federal crime,” Levinson added. It was “smart to raise it,”
he added, indicating that he could get the attention of the police, even though it was a completely false statement.

After the dust, the hotel locked the “Borat” team out of the suite where Giuliani had been filmed, Levinson said. But the crew had already moved the images out of the room. “That’s always out there,” he explained. “There are always ways to make sure we get the data.”

But his team remained locked in the room and were forced to rent new equipment, Deadline reported. “It was a very stressful time that night because the hotel would not allow us to take anything out of the rooms,” he added.

Giuliani told page six of the New York Post last summer that he called New York City police after “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen entered a thong room pink.

“This guy comes running in, dressed in a madman, what I would say was a pink transgender dress,” Giuliani said on page six, on a transphobic level. “It simply came to our notice then. He had a beard, bare legs and was not what I would call attractive for distraction.

He said that “he only realized later that it must be Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people I had previously cheated on and I felt good about myself because I didn’t understand. “

Giuliani did not provide details on page six about his conversations with city police. And it ended in “Borat.”

Nothing came out of Giuliani’s complaints, but Levinson was worried at the time after spending about 19 hours behind bars during the filming of the original 2006 “Borat.”

“We ended up conspiring with our lawyers,” Levinson said. I called the production team and said, ‘We’re taking everyone to New Jersey tonight.’ It was 11 o’clock at night. I didn’t want to repeat what happened to me in the first movie that happened to the entire crew. “.

Levinson was interviewed along with several Zoom nominees as part of preparations for the PGA virtual awards ceremony on Thursday. Levinson and Borat co-producers Anthony Hines and Cohen have been nominated for the award for best theatrical film producer.

Bakalova has been nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Borat.” The film won Best Comedy and Cohen won Best Actor in a Comedy at the Golden Globes.

Giuliani has earned a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. He could not be contacted immediately to comment on Levinson’s observations.