Staff Blog
Hickey talks with Brüno dupee
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
posted by Molly Eichel
Over on Philly Blunt, Brian Hickey has an interview with one of guys tricked by Sacha Baron Cohen for Brüno, which hits theaters tomorrow (pick up the paper/come on over here tomorrow for our review. It's a doozy).
Danny Shirley, the owner of the Dragon Tough Academy in Haleyville, Ala., was tasked with teaching Baron Cohen as effete Brüno how to fight off an attacker with one, two and three dildos.
Did he realize he'd been duped?
I kind of thought that it was fake, that it wasn't a "culture show" out of Germany or whereever. After a while, I knew I'd been deceived, that it was kind of a different situation.
Read the rest of Hickey's interview here.
You can see Shirley a bit in the trailer below:
What do you think about Baron Cohen's tactics? When I would recommend Borat to customers at the video store I used to work, I had a couple customers who patently refused to watch it because they thought it was unfair to the people who were being tricked. What are your thoughts? Especially in light of Shirley's answers…
