Here’s an update on two of the real people who were conscripted by Sacha Baron Cohen to be in “Borat 2.”
Jeanise Jones, the professional baby sitter who becomes the heart and soul of the movie, posted this message to Facebook today:
“Thank you to all who have reached out to me from here in OKC to around the entire world! Yes it was me in the Borat movie. I was recruited to be in a “Documentary”. At ABSOLUTELY NO time did I know this was a satirical comedy movie and that I was being “setup” so to speak. It’s all good I just did what my Mother Ozell Smith (RIP) taught me to do from as far back as I remember.
Again, thank you to all and to God be the glory for it all.”
Borat leaves his “daughter” with Jeanise, along with a ball and chain and a dog bowl, for hours. Jeanise rises to the occasion, doing everything to help Tutar and liberate her from her father. She is wise and wonderful. She’s also a real person, so all the attention may be scary. You can tell from her picture that she’s cool. I’m hopeful she will contact me at showbiz411@gmail.com.
On the flip side is Macy Chanel, a self styled “influencer” on Instagram, whose photo collection of selfies doesn’t leave much to imagination. I wrote to her the day before the movie hit Amazon, and this is how she replied:
“Thank you for your request. I have received a significant amount of inquiries from the media around Borat. I am willing to provide an exclusive to the publication who: Provides a final cut of any scene(s) from the movie in advance of the release date and After reviewing the footage, preview of questions for the interview.Please let me know if you still have an interest.”
Macy has taken like a duck to water with the movie’s release. I’m sure she’s hoping to become a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills. In the movie she gives Tutar advice about how to attract very old rich men. Macy posted the clip of her encounter with Tutar.
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.comRoger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
