Cage fight mob wanted to kill Sacha Baron Cohen
Posted on July 9, 2009 (Tammy)
Sacha Baron Cohen said a cage fight mob bayed for his blood during the filming of Bruno.
The actor said he was filming in character as the gay Austrian fashionista, who was hosting a real cage fight in the southern conservative state of Arkansas.
“There were 2,000 drunk good old boys baying for blood,” Cohen recalled in a US television interview.
“I was told not to worry, it would take someone two minutes to climb in the cage. The audience booed me and I challenged them to a fight, thinking I was safe. Then a 6ft 8in steroided guy catapulted over the fence in two seconds and stood in front of me as the crowd cheered, ‘Kill him, kill him’.”
Cohen managed to escape through a secret door.
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