10 Movie Secrets They Actually Managed To Keep Before The Film Started
1. Tom Hanks' Cameo - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
To give Sacha Baron Cohen complete credit, he did a fantastic job keeping production of his Borat sequel mostly under wraps until it was officially announced shortly before release.
And though the film is absolutely full of surprises, nothing proved quite so unexpected as Tom Hanks making an hilarious cameo appearance in one of the final scenes.
Borat 2's Usual Suspects-style big twist reveals that Borat (Cohen) was actually patient zero for COVID-19, having been inadvertently responsible for spreading it around the world after being unknowingly infected by vengeful Kazakhstan officials.
And so, after heading to Wuhan and coughing on poultry, Borat heads to Australia and meets Tom Hanks, who he also coughs on, seemingly resulting in Hanks' positive diagnosis in March while he was in the country shooting Baz Luhrmann's new Elvis biopic.
Despite only being in the film for a whole 10 seconds in a movie which also has that scene involving Rudy Giuliani, Hanks' cameo was perhaps Borat 2's biggest surprise, and one which somehow didn't get spoiled beforehand.
The fact that it was clearly filmed against a green screen in a private location presumably helped keep Hanks' involvement secret.