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Sacha Baron Cohen is known as a man of many faces, but it is his real one that left him unrecognizable. The Bruno star was seen with longer hair and a thick beard and I never would have known it was him. Seeing him like that, I think I would recognize more as Borat and Bruno than as himself on the street. If he wants to avoid the paps all he has to do is be the real him and we would never guess it is the man of many disguises.
Even though it looks like he is part of that period movie, he is actually on the set visiting his girlfriend, Isla Fisher who is filming Burke & Hare.
David Letterman missed out by not having Sacha Baron Cohen dressed as Bruno the other night on the show because seeing him on the Today Show as his Austrian ego was so hysterical. It was like watching a great comedy sketch that you didn’t want to end. Plus Matt Lauer really held his own brilliantly. I am not sure I could’ve gone as long as he did without completely losing it. Seriously you have to watch the whole interview to see all the gems he came up with. I can’t wait to see what other politically incorrect jokes he has in Bruno that comes out tomorrow!
Sacha Baron Cohen has done something he hasn’t done since he began promoting Bruno, he did the Late Show with David Letterman as himself. After watching Sacha and not Bruno do the interview, I have to say it wasn’t as funny in fact it was borderline boring. I wonder why he changed things up? Like did Letterman’s people tell him they wouldn’t do the interview if he was Bruno? Just seems so weird to see him as is and not as the character for the movie he is promoting that out is on Friday? Did anyone else find it weird?
Last night Bruno premiered in LA, but the scene with LaToya Jackson was edited from the film after her brother’s death according to the Wall Street Journal.
During the scene, the character Bruno, played by comic Sacha Baron Cohen, creates a pretext to copy Michael Jackson’s telephone number from Ms. Jackson’s BlackBerry.
The edit appears to have been made on the fly, in the few hours between the pop star’s afternoon death and the 7:30 pm premiere.
As of now Universal does not plan on adding the scene back in before the movie comes out on July 10th.
I am so happy that both Universal and Bruno decided to respect Michael Jackson and edit the scene out.
