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Baron Cohen feels the burn
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Daniel Day Lewis eat your heart out – Sacha Baron Cohen is twice as committed to method acting. To bring new character Bruno, a gay Austrian fashionista, to life for his new film, the star reportedly tried to bleach all the hair on his body – which had some disastrous side effects.
“Sacha is committed to as much realism as he can muster in his films,” a source told The Sun. “He’d heard that all-over hairlessness is a popular trend in the gay community, so he thought he’d bleach all his hair so it looked invisible.”
“But it quickly turned into a disaster. Shortly after having the procedure done he felt a burning sensation and it grew steadily worse. He had a bad allergic reaction to hydrogen peroxide, which is a strong bleaching agent.”
Oh dear. Was any particular embarrassing area of his body affected? Apparently so. Added the source: “It was so severe around a certain part of his anatomy that he couldn’t sit down for three days.”
“He had to make an emergency appointment with the doctors, who gave him some medication to counter the irritation. Crew members found the whole incident hilarious and it slowed down filming for a bit, but Sacha soon got over the discomfort.”
Luckily, Sacha suffered no long-lasting ill effects, which presumably means he won’t have spend the entire Bruno premiere standing up…
by Will Parkhouse, Friday 8 May 2009
Sources: The Sun
Picture: Rex
