While Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian and actor, wasn't known much outside the UK when he made the faux documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" last year, the response from Kazakh leaders, which protested his portrayal of the country, pretty much guaranteed him success, as audiences streamed to see the movie and what all the fuss was about.
Talking to the Daily Telegraph in Britain, Cohen announced he wouldn't be playing the Borat character again, neither his other "Ali G" alter ego.
"When I was being Ali G and Borat, I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them. So admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing," he told the Telegraph.
"It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it's fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I 'get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form, really."
Cohen may have done his job too good when interacting with people on the street in the film, as a number of them have sued him for the way they were portrayed in the film.
Playing a rival barber to Johnny Depp's character in Sweeney Todd, he is killed off by Todd in the story.
Cohen is living in Los Angeles now with his girlfriend Isla Fisher and their recently born daughter Olive.
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