Sacha Baron Cohen bought a new jacket for Ryan Seacrest after "ashes" incident
(CBS News) In a rare interview out of character, Sacha Baron Cohen, the star of "Borat," "Bruno" and his latest movie, "The Dictator," responded to a question about a prank he pulled on Ryan Seacrest.
On the Oscars red carpet earlier this year, Cohen, in the character of "The Dictator," spilled a golden urn of fake Kim Jong Il ashes - actually made of flour - down the front of the E! host's tuxedo.
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"Depends if they were actual ashes," Cohen said. "I mean, with Ryan Seacrest, it was actually a bit of flour. I sent him a new jacket afterwards. It had a little label inside, 'made by child slave labor.'"
For more with Cohen, including a funny story about Mohammed Al Fayed's relationship with recently deceased Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, watch the video in the player above.