Sacha Baron Cohen will not be attending the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, after fears that he will pull a stunt as character from his new film THE DICTATOR .
Despite being a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, Baron Cohen will not be allowed at the awards unless he can guarantee he will not be pulling a stunt.
Paramount have said : “Unless they’re assured that nothing entertaining is going to happen on the Red Carpet, the Academy is not admitting Sacha Baron Cohen to the show.”
The actor had been planning to make an entrance as General Aladeen before changing into a normal suit for the rest of the ceremony.
This would not be the first awards ceremony that the actor has pulled a stunt at a ceremony. At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards Baron Cohen landed crotch-first on rapper Eminem as his character Bruno. Although this was accepted for the MTV awards it seems the Academy Awards are not as accepting in red carpet stunts.
A spokesperson for the Academy said: ” We would hope that every studio knows that this is a bad idea. The Red Carpet is not about stunting.”
One scene from THE DICTATOR sees Cohen as General Aladeen parrade the streets on a camel- I wonder what he’d have arrived on for the Oscars?!
Source: Deadline
