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Fraternity boys sue Borat over film role
Two unsuspecting fraternity boys want to "make a lawsuit" against Borat over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
- AP
- Published: 00:00 November 12, 2006
Columbia, South Carolina:Two unsuspecting fraternity boys want to "make a lawsuit" against Borat over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
The legal action filed on Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men "engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in", the lawsuit says.
The film follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakh journalist character in a blend of fiction and improvised comic encounters as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans. The film debuted as the No 1 box-office lure last weekend with $26.5 million (Dh135.96 million).
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment".
They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen's character.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005 a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
"They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu.
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