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So who's Sacha satirising now? After Rebel Wilson 'sexism' row, Ali G actor Baron Cohen stars in womaniser role for new Rosamund Pike film

But in his latest role, Sacha Baron Cohen appears to be taking aim at a subject a little closer to home.

Cohen, who is divorcing actress wife Isla Fisher, rose to fame as fictional hip-hop lover Ali G, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev and Austrian fashion show host Bruno Gehard Cohen, who is divorcing actress wife Isla Fisher, rose to fame as fictional hip-hop lover Ali G, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev and Austrian fashion show host Bruno Gehard. In March, he got into a dispute with Ms Wilson ahead of the release of her memoir, Rebel Rising, in which she said she was asked to do things that were ‘derogatory to women or to my size’ while shooting Grimsby, and likened an actor – who she later said was Cohen – to a ‘fourth-grade bully who teases the fat girl on the playground and tries to make her life a living hell’.

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