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Baron Cohen: Borat Is Dead to Me

Posted Dec 21, 07 5:46 PM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – The man behind unruly Kazakh reporter Borat and gangsta journalist Ali G is abandoning the beloved guises, Sacha Baron Cohen tells the Daily Telegraph. “It is like saying goodbye to a loved one,” he said. But the loss was inevitable: “Every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I 'get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form.”

The interview with the real Baron Cohen was a rare one; he prefers to keep his personal life masked by various alter egos, sometimes “being” them “14 hours a day,” the actor and Cambridge graduate said. He's now moving on, currently appearing in a singing role as Pirelli the tight-trousered barber in Tim Burton’s bloodbath Sweeney Todd.

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Sacha Baron Cohen is shown in this Jan. 15, 2007, file photo in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring...   (Associated Press)
British actor Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed in his character "Borat" poses for the press near the Eiffel tower in Paris, in this file photo. Cohen is retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his...   (Associated Press)
Borat appears as the host of the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2005.   (Getty Images)
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