There were a lot of happy tears shared across 7,000 miles this morning as shocked Maria Bakalova, living in Los Angeles, found out that she was a first-time Golden Globe nominee while on Zoom with relatives and friends in her native Bulgaria. Staying true to the proverbial “Balkan temperament,” the group ran the gamut…
Not since the Manchester By the Sea year of 2017 has Amazon Studios generated as many as the 10 Golden Globes nominations it received Wednesday morning.
The noms came from a diverse number of films — three for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (nods for Best Picture, Sacha Baron Cohen for Best Actor and Maria Bakalova for…
Bulgaria, a small Eastern European country of 7 million, is having a moment. For only the second time, Bulgarian is a main spoken language in a big Hollywood film. Joining 2004's The Terminal is Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with Bulgarian the language spoken by Borat's daughter Tutar, played by Maria Bakalova in one of…
Tragedy is punctured by comedy from the start of The Father. At a funeral in rural Bulgaria, mourners prepare to say goodbye to Valentina as the priest delivers an elegy over her grave. Suddenly, a cellphone starts ringing with the sound of a beeping frog — it belongs to Valentina's son, Pavel (Ivan Barnev)…
When Amazon released it in the heat of presidential election season, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm captured the zeitgeist as Sacha Baron Cohen and his breakout co-star Maria Bakalova acted out a father-daughter story with the unwitting help of QAnon followers, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump's lawyer…
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Maria Bakalova, the breakout star of Amazon and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
The film premiered on Amazon Prime on October 23 and immediately became one of biggest streaming successes of 2020. While the return of Baron Cohen’s Kazakh television journalist to America is what…
Rudy Giuliani apparently wasn’t the only Borat prank target in the current administration. According to President Donald Trump, he was also once visited by the Kazakhstan journalist.
Speaking to reporters late on Friday, President Donald Trump was asked whether he had seen the footage involving his adviser Giuliani in…
So Borat is back and, in my opinion, that is a very good thing indeed. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is even wilder than the 2006 original, which won star Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe as well as an Oscar nomination…