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Reactions are still pouring in from this morning’s newly minted Golden Globe nominees, but perhaps the most excited of them all is “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” star Maria Bakalova.The actress — who is up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy — was overjoyed during TheWrap’s Zoom call with her Wednesday morning.

There were a lot of happy tears shared across 7,000 miles this morning as Maria Bakalova found out that she was a first-time Golden Globe nominee while on Zoom with relatives and friends in her native Bulgaria. Staying true to the proverbial “Balkan temperament,” the group ran the gamut of emotions, from crying to screaming to laughter, and Maria’s mom told her how proud she was of her.

Not since the Manchester By the Sea year of 2017 has Amazon Studios generated as many as the 10 Golden Globes nominations it received Wednesday morning.

Bulgaria, a small Eastern European country of 7 million, is having a moment. For only the second time, Bulgarian is a main spoken language in a big Hollywood film.

UPDATED with latest: The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its Virtuosos Award, given annually to a group recognizing their noteworthy performances in film. The honors will be bestowed Saturday, April 3.

When Borat Sagdiyev returned to the screen 14 years after the Oscar-nominated Borat, creator and star Sacha Baron Cohen was eager to examine Trumpism in America in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Along for the ride was Tutar, Borat's teenage daughter, played by 24-year-old Bulgarian newcomer Maria Bakalova, whom Borat planned to give as a present to Vice President Mike Pence.

When Amazon released it in the heat of presidential election season, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm captured the zeitgeist as Sacha Baron Cohen and his breakout co-star Maria Bakalova acted out a father-daughter story with the unwitting help of QAnon followers, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, during a scene with Rudi Giuliani.Giuliani appeared in a controversial scene with actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Baron Cohen’s daughter in the movie sequel which was released last October on Amazon Prime Video.Bakalova poses as a 15-year-old journalist interviewing Giuliani, who was former US President’s Donald Trump’s lawyer, about the US president’s COVID-19 response.

Where you know her from: Playing Ahsha Hayes on VH1’s series “Hit the Floor” and Dussie Mae, girlfriend to the titular blues singer played by Viola Davis, in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”Where you’ll see her this year: In the title role of “Zola,” the 2020 Sundance-acclaimed (and then long-delayed) dramedy based on a 2015 tweetstorm about two strippers on a turbulent, violent road trip.

“Borat” sequel, has remained close to the film’s breakout star, Maria Bakalova — the two even shared a phone call on Thanksgiving this year. Bakalova, 24, played Borat’s teenage daughter Tutar in the Sacha Baron Cohen satire.

Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova has said she felt a “duty” as an actor to complete the film’s controversial scene with Donald Trump‘s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.Bakalova, who played Borat’s daughter Tutar in the recently-released sequel, posed as a journalist interviewing Giuliani in a scene that’s attracted widespread controversy.Asked to explain the scene in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Bakalova said: “I knew who [Giuliani] was.

Maria Bakalova cozies up to a shirtless guy while enjoying some downtime at the beach over the weekend in Miami, Fla.

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The New York Film Critics Circle has selected Kelly Reichardt's First Cow as its best picture of 2020. The group gave two awards to Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always (best actress for star Sidney Flanigan and screenplay for Hittman) and Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (best actor for Delroy Lindo and supporting actor for the late Chadwick Boseman).

virtual cinema platform Kino Marquee, calling it “a virtual distribution service that was designed to help support movie theaters, not destroy them.”Last year, the New York Film Critics Circle awarded Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” its Best Picture prize, and the film went on to collect 10 Oscar nominations.

who has just received an IMDb STARmeter award, also landed at No.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorSince “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” landed on Amazon Prime on Oct. 23, it’s been the talk of the town.

the New York Times of the widely analyzed scene where, while interviewing Giuliani and playing the part of Borat’s barn-raised 15-year-old daughter Tutar, the former NYC mayor’s hand appears to end up down his pants.Giuliani, 76, called the NYPD in response to the spoof interview.Bakalova, who is currently Los Angeles-based, said she trusted Baron Cohen to “never put me in a dangerous situation,” but still she “was nervous” and her “heart was racing” ahead of shooting the scene.“But Sacha was

actress Maria Bakalova is opening up about the much talked-about scene in the film featuring Rudy Giuliani.In the now-infamous scene, Bakalova's character, Tutar — Borat's 15-year-old daughter who's posing as a journalist — invites 76-year-old Giuliani up to a hotel room to have a drink after their interview. After she tries to take his microphone off, he appears to put his hand down his pants while lying on a bed, which is when Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) intervenes.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm star Maria Bakalova has said her “heart was racing” during her scene opposite Rudy Giuliani.The Bulgarian actress, who plays Borat’s daughter Tutar Sagdiyev in the film, told the New York Times about her experience pretending to be a journalist interviewing Donald Trump’s personal attorney in one of the film’s pivotal scenes.When asked if she had ever felt in physical danger while shooting, Bakalova mentioned the moment Giuliani called the police after realising

The woman who played Borat’s daughter is giving her take on that icky scene she filmed with Rudy Giuliani!

Maria Bakalova, 24, is opening up about the controversial scenes she shared with former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, 76, in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — admitting that was one time she felt like she felt she could be in “physical danger” when shooting. “Maybe the scene when we were at the hotel and Rudy Giuliani called the police, I was kind of scared that something would happen. But fortunately, we escaped,” she confessed in a new interview with the New York Times, published on Nov. 11.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm breakout star Maria Bakalova is speaking out about that infamous scene.

where he appeared to shove his hand down his pants while lying down on a hotel-room bed after being interviewed by Baron Cohen’s co-star Maria Bakalova. Giuliani claimed he was only tucking his shirt in, though plenty of people noted how the actions he made don’t really resemble how the vast majority of people do that.When asked about the fiasco, Trump called Cohen “a creep,” which prompted Cohen to make his job offer.

There was no question over how far Sacha Baron Cohen went to in order to infiltrate and make fun of the current White House administration in “Borat 2,” and he managed to get plenty of embarrassing footage (see the Rudy Giuliani scandal currently dominating the news cycle; clip below).

Much has been written about the scene in Sacha Baron Cohen's newly released Borat sequel in which Rudy Giuliani is shown in what appears to be a compromising position in a hotel room with actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat's 15-year-old daughter Tutar in the movie. But Baron Cohen offered some new, behind-the-scenes details from the filming of that encounter in a Monday night appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWe’re only days away from the second coming of Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, and Variety has an exclusive clip of one of his many misadventures.From producer and star Sacha Baron Cohen and distributor Amazon Prime Video, the sequel to Cohen’s hit 2006 mockumentary returns again to the United States to probe cultural divides — this time, with his teen daughter (reportedly played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova) in tow.On a pit stop in the Carolinas, Borat