Sacha Baron Cohen has hit out at Donald Trump by branding the President an "overt racist" whose behavior has allowed others to reveal their "inner prejudices".

The actor made the comments during an interview with The New York Times as he discussed the differences between making the 2005 movie Borat and its upcoming 2020 sequel.

Watch the trailer for Borat 2 below: 

Speaking about filming the original mockumentary in the US 15 years ago, Cohen said: "In 2005, you needed a character like Borat who was misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic to get people to reveal their inner prejudices."

However, the actor found things quite different after reviving his character for the unexpected 2020 follow-up. He said: "Now those inner prejudices are overt. Racists are proud of being racists."

Recall the moment Cohen's Ali G pitched his business idea to Donald Trump:

The 49-year-old BAFTA winner also denounced President Trump as "an overt racist" and "an overt fascist", who has allowed "the rest of society to change their dialogue, too".

Discussing the overarching goal for the movie, Cohen said: "My aim here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism,. The aim is to make people laugh, but we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism."

Cohen has never minced his words when asked about President Trump, previously telling James Cordon on The Late Late Show that he was "the first person to realize that [President Trump] was a d**k."

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Rumors about a second Borat movie spread like wildfire on social media when Cohen was spotted in his classic "not-black" suit as he drove around Long Beach in a yellow pickup truck.

It was later announced that Cohen had completed the movie, which is titled Borat: Gift Of Pornographic Monkey To Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence To Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation Of Kazakhstan.

Speaking about his greatest challenge filming the sequel, Cohen told the NY Times: "The hardest thing I had to do was, I lived in character for five days in this lockdown house.

"I was waking up, having breakfast, lunch, dinner, going to sleep as Borat when I lived in a house with these two conspiracy theorists. You can’t have a moment out of character."

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Per the Metro, Cohen wrote the upcoming movie alongside Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, and Lee Kern.

Per an updated report by The Film Stage, sources have revealed that the movie will focus on President Donald Trump's relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

The movie will also look at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, with Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani making cameos.

Borat: Gift Of Pornographic Monkey To Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence To Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation Of Kazakhstan lands on Amazon Prime on October 23.

Sacha Baron Cohen has hit out at Donald Trump by branding the President an "overt racist" whose behavior has allowed others to reveal their "inner prejudices".

The actor made the comments during an interview with The New York Times as he discussed the differences between making the 2005 movie Borat and its upcoming 2020 sequel.

Watch the trailer for Borat 2 below: 

Speaking about filming the original mockumentary in the US 15 years ago, Cohen said: "In 2005, you needed a character like Borat who was misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic to get people to reveal their inner prejudices."

However, the actor found things quite different after reviving his character for the unexpected 2020 follow-up. He said: "Now those inner prejudices are overt. Racists are proud of being racists."

Recall the moment Cohen's Ali G pitched his business idea to Donald Trump:

The 49-year-old BAFTA winner also denounced President Trump as "an overt racist" and "an overt fascist", who has allowed "the rest of society to change their dialogue, too".

Discussing the overarching goal for the movie, Cohen said: "My aim here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism,. The aim is to make people laugh, but we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism."

Cohen has never minced his words when asked about President Trump, previously telling James Cordon on The Late Late Show that he was "the first person to realize that [President Trump] was a d**k."

[[imagecaption|| Credit: PA Images]]

Rumors about a second Borat movie spread like wildfire on social media when Cohen was spotted in his classic "not-black" suit as he drove around Long Beach in a yellow pickup truck.

It was later announced that Cohen had completed the movie, which is titled Borat: Gift Of Pornographic Monkey To Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence To Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation Of Kazakhstan.

Speaking about his greatest challenge filming the sequel, Cohen told the NY Times: "The hardest thing I had to do was, I lived in character for five days in this lockdown house.

"I was waking up, having breakfast, lunch, dinner, going to sleep as Borat when I lived in a house with these two conspiracy theorists. You can’t have a moment out of character."

[[imagecaption|| Credit: PA Images]]

Per the Metro, Cohen wrote the upcoming movie alongside Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, and Lee Kern.

Per an updated report by The Film Stage, sources have revealed that the movie will focus on President Donald Trump's relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

The movie will also look at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, with Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani making cameos.

Borat: Gift Of Pornographic Monkey To Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence To Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation Of Kazakhstan lands on Amazon Prime on October 23.