Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors

[fauxpaix]

When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod, Romania: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running water and where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land

Comments

[humangowrites]

That's horrible.

[fauxpaix]

pretttttty much.

[pivoine]

The frat boys from the movie are also suing the filmmakers, claiming they didn't think the movie would be shown in America & now their reputation is "tarnished."

[pivoine]

Oh, clearly I didn't read the comment above mine. Sorryyyy

[fauxpaix]

lol. i think their racist, misogynistic asses probably deserve whatever "tarnishing" they received. not that deception is ok, but seems rather karmic to me.

[kaiyos]

ugh. thanks for posting this, even though it makes me sick

[fauxpaix]

:\ you're welcome