re: 'Borat 2' Tomatometer - 89% and Spoilers Thread

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If I went to a bar and picked up a chick, brought her back to a hotel room and had someone secretly filming inside, wouldn't I be thrown in jail? Let alone if I did that, didn't tell her, and then released it publicly for money. Am I missing something?

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They have to get a release from everyone to obviously use their image, likeness and persona in the movie.

Most States require that you have to tell the person they're being recorded if they're not in a public place.

But yeah, even in the lawsuit from those racist frat boys in Borat...they admitted they were told it was being filmed, Borat - was making a movie (they didn't tell them it was Sascha Baron Cohen) and the kids signed releases to be on camera (they claimed they were duped.)

So to answer your question, especially after the first movie's lawsuit...nobody is being secretly filmed, no one who appears in the movie is doing it against their will and they all signed releases and were most likely paid and had contracts with Cohen's production company. So yeah...staged if you will.