Cohen, best known for playing the title role in 2006’s Borat, plays a flamboyant homosexual Austrian fashionista in his new film, in which he dupes many into playing along with his con game–including Jody Trautwein, youth pastor at Point of Grace Ministries in Birmingham.
Trautwein says he doesn’t mind being the brunt of a joke as long as his message ends up in the movie: “It obviously turned out to be just deception and perversion, but the message in my heart is actually going to be shared with millions. It’s turning out to be a positive thing. If nothing else, people will hear me sharing Jesus.”
