On what Borat was built to reveal
“In 2005, you needed a character like Borat who was misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic to get people to reveal their inner prejudices. Now those inner prejudices are overt. Racists are proud of being racists.”
From an interview with Maureen Dowd ahead of the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, explaining how the method behind the character had to change between the first film and the sequel. The interview originally ran in The New York Times in October 2020.
Source: The Irish Times (syndicated New York Times interview by Maureen Dowd) (irishtimes.com). Wording checked against the source.
Character: Borat