Despite being one of the world's biggest movie comedians and
the inspiration behind the most obnoxious Halloween costume of 2006 (and 2007,
2008 and probably 2009), Sacha Baron Cohen managed to sneak onto the set of
NBC's Medium to stir up some in-character hijinx, reports Entertainment
Weekly.
While the greater prank on humanity would be that Medium
is in production for its fifth (fifth!) season, Cohen's hooliganism managed to
shut down filming of a courtroom scene.
Cohen, who was reportedly in character as Austrian fashion
reporter and mesh tank-top enthusiast Bruno, weaseled his way onto the Medium
set as an extra and proceeded to act "unruly." According to Entertainment
Weekly, Cohen constantly interrupted the tense court scene until security
was summoned to remove the actor from the set.
According to reports, nobody clued in until Cohen was being
pried from the jury box.
"No one had a clue it was Sacha playing Bruno," a
source told EW. "It's amazing he was able to infiltrate the set and
pull this off."
Yes. Truly amazing. Because Medium isn't broadcast by
the same company that's producing the Bruno movie or anything (Bruno is
produced by Universal. Medium, although it is produced by
Video of the ruckus -- which took place Nov. 7 -- has yet to
surface and it's still unclear whether the Bruno camp was shooting their
own footage or if they plan to use tape shot by the Medium team. In any
case, it's hardly the first time Bruno's "journeys through
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