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KC's Hotel Phillips Semi-Unwillingly Makes An Appearance in 'Bruno'

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July 10, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by Jenna | 0 Comments

Ha! Kansas City's Hotel Phillips is a movie set hotel now. Kinda involuntary. And they're pretty pissed about it.

According to the Kansas City Star, the hotel is a pretty significant part of a scene about halfway through Sacha Baron Cohen's (yes, the Borat dude) Bruno — and the staffers at the Phillips are notsohappy about it, because they "signed a waiver under false pretenses."

Per the Star:

In the film, a hotel maintenance man finds Bruno (Baron Cohen) and his assistant/lover Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten) handcuffed together in a human knot in Room 2010 (the hotel is never identified, but it’s there on the maintenance guy’s nametag). The two men are wearing only black leather S&M harnesses. Several gerbils are running around an open dresser drawer. Bruno says they’ve lost the handcuff keys.

Clearly freaked out, the maintenance man retreats to the hallway and calls for backup. Soon several hotel officials — Proctor among them — arrive to take in the bizarre scene.

Ha! Oh, and did we mention that when the Phillips agreed to be a part of the film, they were told that its cast and crew "were making a documentary about a European man traveling around the U.S. and how he interacts with Americans and our culture." Haha. And it's not like they'd have known any better if they'd seen Borat — staffers didn't realize Baron Cohen had anything to do with this until they'd answered the maintenance call.

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