Just announced, Sacha Baron Cohen has been invited by the producers of The Academy Awards to crash attend the presitious awards ceremony dressed as Admiral Gen. Shabazz Aladeen, his alter-ego for the upcoming comedy The Dictator.
"We're thrilled to have him and he'll be on the red carpet dressed as The Dictator," Brian Grazer told Extra.
While initially leary (and rightly so, considering some of the stunts Cohen has pulled at other awards shows), the Oscar producers seem to have seen the light, as the possibility of higher ratings from the chance of Cohen doing something unexpected might have been too good an opportunity to pass up, not to mention all the free press he'll get for his film.
An Academy spokesperson said she had not heard about the plans for Cohen, but if the welcome mat stays unfurled, Cohen will have succeeded in pulling off one of the more brazen publicity stunts in recent Hollywood history. The Oscars, viewed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, will give Cohen and The Dictator a huge promotional platform.





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