O.J. is shown in his interview on "Who Is America?" (Photo: SHOWTIME)

Sacha Baron Cohen was confident that he would draw a murder confession from O.J. Simpson when interviewing the former football star for his 2018 series "Who's America?"

Baron Cohen explained that he was so good at getting sensational results in interviews while disguising himself for "Who Is America?" that Simpson would surely fall for the plan.

"So, O.J. Simpson, I was a bit scared," Baron Cohen said of the Daily Beast's Last Laugh Podcast, published on Tuesday. It was the last thing I did in the series. I was like, you know, I had a guy to pull my butt, I had interviewed a vice president, can I have O.J. Simpson confess to the murder? "

The football star Simpson was acquitted in 1995 for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and his friend Ron Goldman.

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Convincing Simpson to accept the interview was simple enough for "Who Is America?" production team.

"He can not leave Vegas and we have attracted him by the promise of a meeting with an Arab Sheikh.We said that this Arab Sheikh was going to give you a contract that will be worth a lot of money" said Baron Cohen.

He trained with an FBI interrogator before the interview.

"They have a technique to crack down on criminals and make them confess," said Baron Cohen. "So, during the interview, and it was pretty nerve – wracking, I asked him about 45 times he had murdered someone and that he was becoming more and more frustrated. "

Baron Cohen conducted the disguised interview in one of his "Who's America?" personalities, Gio Monaldo, an indiscreet Italian billionaire. Simpson never defeated his insistence of innocence during the interview.

Baron Cohen, who revealed that his Borat character had ended Kid Rock's marriage with Pamela Anderson, had also discussed his interview with businessman Donald Trump at the time. in 2003. This was one of the original personalities of the screen of Baron Cohen, the potential rapper Ali G.

Trump kept the crew waiting.

"I had interviewed academics, Nobel laureates and UN leaders, nobody had made us wait before," said Baron Cohen. "He made us wait an hour and a half, and then I remember just before the interview, he shouts," Give me the mayor! "And I think it was (Rudy) Giuliani at the time. He starts screaming (on the phone) and I was really intimidated. "

When Trump saw that he was going to be questioned by Baron Cohen's Ali G, he immediately insisted on a brief interview.

"So he stayed about eight minutes, which was pretty good, because I told him nonsense," said Baron Cohen.

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The interview gave rise to the classic Trump line: "There are hundreds of millions of years, people were doing business, they exchanged stones, pebbles, etc.".

Baron Cohen rebuffed Trump's later assertion that he could see that the interview with Ali G was a hoax.

"My question is this: If he saw that it was fake, why would he claim, as he did, that human beings are negotiating rocks for centuries?" Millions of years? "said Baron Cohen.

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