-Now, obviously, you know you're up against
the legacy of the first film,
and you have to figure out funny bits,
and you have to figure out
how to land this political commentary
in a way that felt incredibly fresh.
But I will say, the part that really blew me away,
amongst everything else, the relationship --
The father-daughter relationship in this film
is really beautiful.
Did you know from the beginning
that that would have to be the backbone of this,
or was it something you found in the writing?
-Yeah, that was --
I mean, we had a challenge, right.
We're making another "Borat."
And the first "Borat" went down amazingly well.
We thought nobody in the world would want to see a movie
about an anti-Semitic journalist from Central Asia
that was a documentary.
But then we're set with doing this new one and bring it out
before the election, making sure it's, you know, satirical.
Obviously, you've got all these other challenges,
trying to get into Trump's inner circle.
But, yeah -- But fundamentally, me and the other writers
realized it's gonna be emotion.
You've got to actually care about the relationship
between Borat and his daughter.
So we looked at a bunch of, kind of, father-daughter movies
like "Fiddler on the Roof."
Not the Kazakh version,
which is they just throw a Jew off a building.
But, you know, all these -- "Paper Moon."
All these sort of arranged-marriage movies.
'Cause you actually have to
want these two characters to be together.
-So, there's -- I mean, as thrilling as any scene
in an action movie last year
was you dressing up in a full Trump costume
and breaking into CPAC.
Can you talk about what you had to go through
to get into the building?
-Yeah, well -- So, that day was pretty much like this.
I wake up at 2:00 in the morning, drive to some motel.
There's a full prosthetics team.
They spent five hours turning me into Donald Trump.
And then, yeah, you know --
We obviously have to get through various layers of Secret Service
then hid in a bathroom for another four hours.
And then I was concerned that --
I essentially got taken by the Secret Service
after I did the scene.
I had 15 -- 15 kind of different
law-enforcement people around me.
And I knew that I couldn't let them know who I was,
because then word would get out.
And if my name got out there, infiltrating CPAC,
the movie would be done.
So, you know, I had one of the cops --
You know, there's 15 guys around me.
And there's a guy with a big badge, and he goes,
"Give me your I.D."
And I said, "I'm not giving over my I.D.
I don't know if you're law enforcement."
He was like, "Look at my badge!"
And I go, "Well, I don't know if that's a real badge."
And then one of the other guys says,
"Just give me your I.D."
And I said, "It's in my shoe.
Do you want me to take off my shoe?"
And he's like, "Oh, yeah, you're right."
Then I carry on for a few minutes.
And then one of the other Secret Service guys says,
"Where's his I.D.?"
And he goes, "Well, it's in his shoe."
You know. And he goes, "So what?! Get it out of the shoe!"
Then the Secret Service take me into a separate room.
And I'd hired a bail lawyer for them --
in case they arrested me.
And I'm in the room, and they close this door.
And I can hear my bail lawyer going,
"Let me in. I represent the -- My client is behind the door!"
And I said -- They started questioning me.
And I said, "I'd seen all the movies."
I go, "I refuse to answer any questions
until my lawyer is present!"
And I go, "And he's just outside that door.
I insist he be let in!"
They go, "we're the Secret Service.
It doesn't work like that. You can answer the questions."
So they basically decided not to arrest me.
They said, "Get off the property."
Then, what they didn't realize was, about two minutes later,
we had two other people also --
One was a Trump impersonator,
and one was a stuntman
dressed also in a prosthetic mask as Trump.
So, they say, "You come back here,
you're going to be arrested."
Two minutes later, these two guys come into the -- into CPAC,
and they're immediately arrested.
And they, you know, are surrounded by Secret Service.
One is like, "Take that mask off your face!"
And the guy goes, "This is my face!"
The trump impersonator had no idea what's going on.
And then the stuntman -- They go,
"We told you, if you come back, you're going to be arrested!"
After an hour with a prosthetics makeup artist,
they removed the mask and realized it wasn't me.
So it was a challenge. -All right.
I mean, again, I know you've been through
some of these white-knuckle moments.
Are you a little terrified when you're in the room
with Secret Service like that?
-Yes. -Yeah.
-Yes. I mean, you don't --
You don't think anything violent is going to happen to you,
although there was --
There was one point when we were preparing the Giuliani scene
with somebody who had Secret Service protection,
and I had to get trained on what to do
when the person's got Secret Service protection.
I won't say who it is. Shout, "Help, help."
So, you know, I was trained on what you do.
Essentially, the first thing
that a secret Service person does,
is they jump on you in the room.
So the advice was lie on the floor
'cause they're gonna jump on you.
That's, you know -- They're big guys.
And they're trying to, obviously, you know --
to stop whoever is getting, you know, shot.
So they don't know. That's the first protocol.
And so I -- We went through the kind of training on what to do.
In the end, we didn't --
didn't go ahead with that person,
and we ended up with Giuliani.
-Well, I can only say thank you
for continuing to take these risks.
And congratulations on both films.
They were both wonderful.
And it was really great talking to you.
-Thank you, Seth. Thank you. Thank you for having
my least-funny character on your show.
-We're glad -- We're glad to finally --
He should get out more.
"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"
is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
And "The Trial of the Chicago 7" is streaming on Netflix.
We'll be right back.