Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed that he dressed up as President Trump and gatecrashed a Mike Pence rally while filming the long-awaited Borat sequel.
The movie is set to be released on Amazon Prime just in time for the November 2020 election, and while comedy was part of the aim, Baron Cohen, 49, has said that he primarily used the movie "to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year".
In an interview with the New York Times, the actor said he has a "long-standing distaste" for the current president, and the pair actually met back in 2003 when he was filming the Ali G movie.
Watch the trailer for Borat 2 below:Baron Cohen said of his transformation into Trump: "Bear in mind, I spent five hours in makeup that morning with the prosthetic team changing my face into Trump's face.
"This fat suit is huge. It's a 56-inch fat suit to turn my waist into Trump's because we had estimated that was the most realistic.
"Obviously, I'm wearing a fat suit. How do I get in and how do I get out?"
At one point, a security guard's wand unexpectedly went off and Baron Cohen improvised and said it was because of his defibrillator.
He added: "Then I ended up hiding in the bathroom, listening to conservative men go to the toilet for five hours until I broke into the room. We were surrounded by Secret Service and police and internal security."
The actor also put a woman over his shoulder, who he claimed was a "gift" from Borat's native Kazakhstan.
At the time of the stunt, news reporters described the man as simply a Trump impersonator, but we now know who it really was.
Per ABC News, the actor was escorted out by security, and no charges were pressed.
The new Borat movie was filmed in secret and partly through the pandemic.
Speaking of the biggest challenge he faced, Baron Cohen said: "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."
Discussing what he thinks of Donald Trump, Baron Cohen said: "His brilliance was to commandeer the very term that was being used against him, 'fake news,' and use it against every journalist that had journalistic integrity."
Earlier this month, Baron Cohen announced the release of the Borat sequel with a truly phenomenal poster of himself wearing a facemask manikini (a maskini) with the caption: "Wear Mask. Save Live."
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.