AceShowbiz - Sacha Baron Cohen is no stranger to outrageous situations, but what he faced during the filming of "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" pushed the boundaries of safety and sanity. In a gripping Vanity Fair video, Cohen recounts an incident at a gun rally that nearly turned fatal.

During the 2020 "Borat" sequel filming, Cohen attempted to covertly capture a scene while performing a satirical song titled "The Wuhan Flu" at the event in Washington. The stakes drastically escalated when an undercover Black Lives Matter protestor in the audience identified him.

"There was a member of Black Lives Matter who went undercover into this crowd because there was a rivalry between these two groups and that person recognized me and went, 'Oh! Sacha Baron Cohen. It's Borat,' " Cohen explained.

He remembered the crowd erupted and chaos ensued as they tried to storm the stage. The tension thickened when one rally attendee pulled a gun. Fortunately, Cohen had hired security for the event.

"I was lucky enough to have a security guard that grabbed the arm of the guy and whispered in his ear, 'It's not worth it, buddy,' " Cohen recounted. This quick intervention spared Cohen from immediate danger as he was swiftly escorted off the stage and into an ambulance.

But the ordeal didn't end there. Cohen described a frantic escape where he refused to leave the scene immediately despite the dangerous situation he was in and insisted on waiting for the director, Jason Woliner, who was being chased.

"Jason jumps in, we close the doors, and we're surrounded and I say to the security guard, I say, 'The doors are closed, right? You've locked all the doors?' He goes, 'Yeah, absolutely.' At that point, one of the doors gets pulled open and they start trying to pull me out."

Through quick thinking and using sheer physical force, Cohen managed to close the door and escape the immediate threat. However, Cohen remained a target while hiding in an Airbnb in nearby Tacoma.

"I was changing venue every night because these guys who were very connected in the area were looking for me," he said, illustrating the intensity of the closing week of "Borat 2" filming.

Appearing on "The Late Show" in 2020, Cohen offered more insight into the incident. He told Stephen Colbert, "Word got out that it was me and then the [gun rally] organizers and a lot of people in the crowd got very angry. They tried to storm the stage. Luckily for me, I had hired the security, so it took them a while to actually storm the stage."

The near-tragic event underscores the sometimes dangerous lengths Cohen goes to in his pursuit of satire and social commentary. As intense as the events were, they are a testament to his commitment to his craft - even when it means putting himself in harm's way.