9 Actors Who Got Totally Wasted To Shoot Movies

9. Sacha Baron Cohen €“ Borat

During 2006's Borat, there's a scene that sees our titular hero (if you can imagine Borat as a hero) attend a wine-tasting demonstration. Of course, with Borat being a mockumentary that sees Sacha Baron Cohen indulge in some serious public method acting, it's only natural that Cohen decided to genuinely get drunk. Nevertheless, knowing this puts a new spin on the scene, and perhaps curbs some of the cringe (at least Cohen's senses were dulled during filming). According to Cohen in an interview with the New York Times, he was so determined to stay in character that he kept telling the wine connoisseurs to repeatedly fill up his glass, demanding more and more in the quest to prove that he wasn't a "little girl". In the end, Cohen drank over twenty glasses of wine within an hour, which caused him to retreat to a nearby bathroom before passing out. The film's director Larry Charles was terrified that Cohen would wake up out of character and give the game away, but thankfully he woke up as Borat and demanded even more wine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S-BmQ4KF0
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