Sacha Baron Cohen Defends Bringing Back ‘Problematic’ Ali G Amid Controversy: He’s ‘Designed to Expose’ Prejudice
Sacha Baron Cohen has explained why he decided to resurrect his buffoon alter-ego Ali G after more than a decade.
Variety reports: Sacha Baron Cohen has explained why he decided to resurrect his buffoon alter-ego Ali G after more than a decade.
“The fact that Ali G is outdated and problematic is the very reason I resurrected him,” Baron Cohen writes in a cover essay for Time magazine. “The world he’s returned to is, in many ways,.
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