In this stunt, Borat dresses up as a country music singer while searching for Tutar at a March for Our Rights rally in Olympia, Washington. Onscreen, Baron Cohen sings the "Wuhan Flu" song he made up in quarantine with Jerry and Jim, which the crowd took to and eventually sang along.
Baron Cohen told Stephen Colbert, however, that Black Lives Matter protesters came over to confront the militia groups in attendance at the rally and recognized Baron Cohen.
"One of them went, 'Oh my God, it's Sacha Baron Cohen!' Word got out that it was me, and then the organizers and a lot of people in the crowd got very angry," he recalled to the late night host. "They tried to storm the stage. Luckily for me, I had hired the security, so it took them a while to actually storm the stage."
Baron Cohen also wrote about this experience in a recent op-ed for Time magazine: "I rushed to a nearby get-away vehicle. An angry crowd blocked our way and started pounding on the vehicle with their fists."
The filmmaker wrote that underneath his overalls and costume as the country music singer, he was wearing a bulletbroof vest. But this protection "felt inadequate with some people outside toting semiautomatic weapons."
"When someone ripped open the door to drag me out, I used my entire body weight to pull the door back shut until our vehicle manoeuvred free," Baron Cohen said. "I was fortunate to make it out in one piece."