Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm creator and star Sacha Baron Cohen has debunked rumors that one of the film’s most controversial scenes involving Rudy Giuliani was faked. The sequel to 2006’s Borat has just arrived on Amazon Prime and is already highly contentious.

Despite having waited fourteen years to add a sequel to the famed (and extremely successful) bizarro world of Kazakhstani reporter Borat Sagdiyev (Cohen), there are those who feel that Borat isn’t any different than he was in 2006. If this is the case, however, it likely has to do with the fact that many of the issues that Cohen was lampooning fourteen years ago continue to exist today. The character is little more than an uncomfortably apt reflection of the world around him—a reality that many critics seem to forget, even as Borat manages to entwine himself in issues that existed long before he arrived on the scene. In Borat 2, the cringe level is upped to all new heights, and one such moment comes when Borat’s on-screen daughter, Tutar (Maria Bakalova) conducts a hotel room interview with former New York City mayor and current Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani.

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The scenes with Giuliani have caused an uproar as of late, due in large part to a point in the phony interview when Giuliani and Bakalova move things to the bedroom. As Giuliani lies on the bed, he appears to put his hand down his trousers. It’s this moment that has cast the former NYC mayor in a negative light and caused him to firmly deny he had done anything wrong, instead calling Cohen “a stone-cold liar.” Cohen has since responded to Giuliani’s claims that he’d done nothing wrong, as can be seen in the video below, courtesy of Good Morning America’s Twitter account:

Insisting that if Giuliani doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong in the film, “…then heaven knows what he’s done with other female journalists in hotel rooms," Cohen makes a strong case for scrutinizing Giuliani’s actions and motives. In the clip, Cohen says, "I just urge everyone to watch the movie. It is what it is. He did what he did. Make your own mind up. It was pretty clear to us." So far the footage has set off a major debate over whether or not the Trump attorney is or isn’t doing anything inappropriate, but the character of Tutar in Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm is meant to be 15 years old. In real life, Bakalova is 24 and during the Good Morning America segment, it’s clear that the film’s encounter left her feeling more than a little uncomfortable. Some may criticize Cohen for placing her in this position, though it is important to remember that as far as Giuliani knew, Tutar was simply a young and naïve reporter who was excited to meet him.

Arguably the biggest hurdle here that Giuliani has to face—and the one that requires no debunking on the part of Cohen—is that someone of Giuliani’s stature had no business being in a bedroom with a young female reporter, drinking alcohol. Whether he was tucking in his shirt or not is somewhat irrelevant when one considers that he asked for Tutar’s phone number and touched the young woman numerous times. Regardless of whether or not Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm appeals to everyone, it’s hard to objectively deny the footage it contains.

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Source: Good Morning America