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weird thing about Leave No Trace is that the BBFC have switched the movie's rating for HV release. was a PG back when it got released in cinemas but it was rerated to a 12 last month for the DVD. it's the same movie as far as i can tell no extra features or anything.

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DEADLINE: I recall that moment in Bruno, where you brought in Paula Abdul for an interview. She went along when asked to sit on a Mexican laborer on all fours, but when that smorgasbord came out, canapes spread across the body of a naked Mexican man, that was too much and she left in a hurry.

BARON COHEN: Exactly. Immediately after that interview, the next person I interviewed was again with the character Gio. The satirical aim of him was to show the levels to which people would go to, out of greed. What would they do for money? In one of the interviews a yacht builder is ready to build a yacht for Colonel Asaad even though it’s going to be used to transport women, basically sex slaves. And during the interview Gio receives fellatio and [the yacht broker] is ready to carry on and keep on talking about the deal.

And there was an interview that didn’t make it in, with Gio. We were shooting some of this at the time of Harvey Weinstein. We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided that Gio would interview a concierge in Las Vegas. During the interview, I revealed that basically Gio has molested an eight-year-old boy. Now, mind you, this is extreme comedy and we thought that the guy would leave the room. Instead, this concierge stays in the room and I go, listen, you’ve got to help me get rid of the problem. And this guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, ‘well, listen, I’m really sorry. In this country, we can’t just drown the boy. This is America we don’t do that.’ And then, in the end, he puts me in touch with a lawyer who can silence the boy. I became really dark stuff. And then at the end of the interview I say, listen, I want to go out and celebrate now. Can you get me a date for tonight? He says, ‘what do you mean, a date?’

I go, you know, like a young man. He says, ‘well, what kind of age?’ I say, lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight. And he says, ‘yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that.’

DEADLINE: None of this remotely qualifies as comedy. What did you do?

BARON COHEN: We immediately turned over the footage to the FBI because we thought, perhaps there’s a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that’s operating for these very wealthy men. And this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires. But in the end the FBI decided not to pursue it.

DEADLINE: Not surprising you didn’t put it in the show…

BARON COHEN: It was too dark and wrong. In a journalistic way it was fascinating, but it was so extreme and so dark that it was too unsettling for the audience.

 

https://deadline.com/2018/12/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-shocking-scenes-donald-trump-dick-cheney-sarah-palin-oj-simpson-golden-globe-nomination-interview-1202522910/

 

Hmmmm...

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5 hours ago, PANDA said:

Finished Leave No Trace.

 

Im confused about how some of the critics circles are nominating McKenzie for supporting actress.  She’s the lead of that movie through and through.

 

Great movie though.

 

Because it's been SOP for awards for decades to nominate child actors/actresses in supporting, even if the main character.

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6 hours ago, AndyLL said:

I assumed you were thread banned for a reason.  However I couldn't find it in your warnings to know when it expired so I let you back in.  Don't make me regret it.

So being thread banned is an actual physical thing?

 

I thought it was up to the user to police himself because Im sure, in the past, I have seen some incur heavier sentences for breaking the ban.

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24 minutes ago, PANDA said:

That’s silly, especially when they’re putting Elsie Fisher as Lead.  

 

This is the same Academy that doesn't let an actor be nominated twice in the same category.

 

Which is how Jamie Foxx went into supporting for Collateral, when he was the main character.

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1 hour ago, 4815162342 said:

 

This is the same Academy that doesn't let an actor be nominated twice in the same category.

 

Which is how Jamie Foxx went into supporting for Collateral, when he was the main character.

+emily blunt getting a supporting actress nomination at SAG this year for A Quiet Place

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