Guess who’s composing the music to Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Bruno’ (possibly subtitled: Delicious Journeys Thorugh America For The Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt”)?
His brother, Erran Baron Cohen who sat down recently with Vulture to discuss the film’s soundtrack. Cohen alluded to the fact that the score is going to chalk full of gay-themed tunes to keep in line with Bruno’s persona, that of an out and proud Austrian fashion journalist.
When asked how the music selection would be different from “Borat,” which he also scored, Erran Baron Cohen replied, “Its a lot gayer. That’s the key thing, I think. There’s a lot of gay influence in the music. I am investigating a lot of gay things at the moment. I just bought the CD called “Gayfest 2008,” and that’s my main influence.” When pressed for details on “Gayfest 2008,” Baron Cohen replied with,”It’s got a guy with a sort of muscle-y bare-chested look on the front. It’s got Jackie ‘O,’ “Before He Cheats.” It’s contemporary gay club, dance pop.”
Sounds great, we can’t wait. Anything to make mainstream audiences uncomfortable. ‘Bruno’ is currently filming, and has recently been in the news for allegedly disrupting the set of the NBC show “Medium.” According to EW, production had to be halted due to constant interruptions from an extra in the jury box, who turned out to be Sacha Baron Cohen disguised as his alter-ego, Bruno.
