Is the scene in the Borat movie with Pamela Anderson real or staged?
November 8, 2006 — PAMELA Anderson looks completely caught off guard and highly distressed as a bag is thrown over her head and she’s chased through a bookstore by Sacha Baron Cohen in the box-office smash “Borat” – but the buxom blond beauty was actually in on the joke. Unlike other pranks in the movie that bring together real people and Cohen in his role as the imbecilic Kazakhstan journalist, Anderson’s gonzo confrontation with him was loosely scripted, then carefully choreographed with jerky camera movements to make it look real. An insider told us, “There’s no way Sacha and a camera operator could have gotten past her bodyguards in real life and then manhandled her . . . It was filmed by pros so it looks completely realistic, as if Pamela had no clue. There is improvisation, but nobody was in the dark.” Not that anybody connected to the film will admit that. Neither 20th Century Fox nor Anderson returned our calls. When MTV News confronted her about her participation, Anderson sa