Borat 2 Has Already Been Filmed, But What Is it, Exactly?

It’s been clear for a while now that there was more Borat of some kind on the way, but many aspects of the project remain cloaked in mystery. Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Sagdiyev remains by far his most famous creation in the U.S., a tool utilized by Cohen in 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan to both tell a fish-out-of-water story and mock the insensitive nature of right-wing America. The film became a huge hit both for Cohen’s impressive improvisational chops and the outrageous sentiments he was often able to coax out of the “average Americans” he was interviewing.
There’s always been talk of another Borat-related follow-up, but that project was presented with an obvious issue from the start: Borat is a much more recognizable character now. Cohen can’t exactly waltz into all the locations he once had while dressed as Borat, trusting on no one to recognize this strange immigrant, and surely that would negatively impact that quality of material he was able to gather. And yet, reports have been circulating recently that Cohen had been seen filming as Borat, and he’d even been captured on camera portraying the character during a film shoot. Now, Collider is reporting that not only has the film already been shot in full, but it’s also been screened for select Hollywood audiences.