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Brüno (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• In October 2006, entertainment blog website Defamer.com jokingly reported the title would be "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt". Numerous websites around the world - including IMDb - reported this to be the actual working title.
  
  
• Originally got a NC-17 rating from the MPAA, but after Sacha Baron Cohen re-edited it it received an R.
  
  
• Sacha Baron Cohen worked out, shaved all of his body hair and got his hair done in order to be Bruno.
  
  
• An interview with La Toya Jackson was hastily cut from the theatrical release due after the unexpected death of Michael Jackson at age 50.
  
  
• The sequence where Bruno enrolled at the Alabama National Guard, filmed at the Alabama Military Academy in Fort McClellan, Anniston, went undetected until a young cadet who recognized him from Borat, notified elder officers who were unfamiliar with the actor.
  
  
• Logo gimmick: The "U" in Universal grows an umlaut (Ü), mimicking the film's title.
  
  
• Had the highest opening-weekend gross for a film with an openly gay character in the lead role with $30.6 million. (The previous record-holder was The Birdcage (1996), with $18.3 million).
  
  
• Ayman Abu Aita, the man depicted as a terrorist, has expressed his intent to sue Cohen for depicting him as a terrorist falsely, lying to him about the interview telling him he's interested in the Palestinian cause while he's a Christian charity worker who spent eight years in Israeli jails.
  
  
• 'Sasha Baron Cohen' and his crew reportedly illegally accessed a fashion show in Milan using fake IDs. After he entered the stage, the lights were dimmed and Baron Cohen was escorted out of the fashion show by security.
  
  

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