Fiction Life of Sacha Baron Cohen

It may seem that the comic actor has dissolved into his characters, but Sacha has his own story, too.

He is 40 years’ old, he has a wife and two daughters. He is rich, famous and talented. Even genius, we may say. He has the only problem: sometimes Sacha forgets his real name, and the amnesia is not the result of his uncommon name.

His family story says that Sacha’s grandfather escaped from Belarus in 1880’s, saving himself from the anti-Jew pogroms. Chaim Baron, after settling down in England, added ‘Cohen’ to his name to ‘improve’ his origin.

The surname Cohen — or more familiar for Belarusians version Cohan — takes start from the priest dynasty of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Sacha’s identity mixed with his characters: a rapper Ali G, then Borat — Kazakh reporter, anti-Semite and homophobe, Bruno — a homosexual fashion talk show host from Austrian and, finally, Admiral General Aladeen, the oppressive dictator from the fictional Republic of Wadiya.

The actor always talks to journalists on behalf of his characters. Sacha remains one of them even after the camera stops recording.

At first, it seemed as a game, as a PR campaign. It is simply hard to believe, that General Aladeen, answering to e-mails and giving interviews on the one day may say “It’s all fiction” on the other.

Yet, Sacha Baron Cohen is usually eclipsed by his heroes. As the actor told Howard Stern, “I dissolve in my characters, I forget who I am. Who am I?”

After the release of ‘Borat’ many Jew organizations take up arms against Sacha, insulted by his anti-Semite character. His father was even hindered to pray in the synagogue.

After the Jewish ‘attack’ homosexuals joined the club blackening Sacha for ‘Bruno.’ Arabs expressed their ill will to Cohen after ‘The Dictator’ even in spite of the fact that General Aladeen — inspired by Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi — is too grotesque for the Arabs themselves.

However, here is a real Sacha Baron Cohen. His father is a accountant, his mother and grandmother is aerobics trainers.

His father Gerald dreamed about Sacha’s becoming a lawyer.

Gerald Baron Cohen showed his son the films with Peter Sellers and the detective from ‘Pink Panter’ became his idol

Sacha is the graduate of the Cambridge University, he devoted his graduation project to the Jews’ role into civil rights movement.

When letting the fiction characters live his life, Sacha finally understood that the wisest thing one can do is not to become anyone else. It is the matter of psychological survival.

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