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Jude Law Lara Lychagina Artyom Kagan on how we began on what has happened in 2020 on how new technologies to appreciate life more and on playing with time serve people W o r l d bridge winter winter 2020-21 the Sacha Baron Cohen I’ve never really done any interviews as myself WINTER 2020/21 Content WINTER 2020/21 Sacha Baron Cohen Illustration: Vera Zashikhina 164. Editor's letter 162. Interview 161. Sacha Baron Cohen. How to laugh at the whole world and stay alive 155. Jude Law. How we began to appreciate life more 144. Artem Kagan. How new technologies serve people 143. The «Productive Seascapes» project by Nicolas Floc’h 168 THE WORLD BRIDGE 167 THE WORLD BRIDGE WINTER 2020/21 Editor's letter The Garden of Forking Paths or Controverses of Time Since time immemorial, man has enjoyed playing. Always. All kinds of games, such as love and war, diplomacy and drama, cuisine and hunger, philosophy and child’s play, to name just a few. Meanwhile, the most favourite and never- changing one has been playing with time, with variations beyond count. Here are just two of them, quite opposite in meaning: the “game” of the Amazoni- an Amondaus, having no idea of time as such in their minds and no word for it in their language and the Borges World Model, described in “The Garden of Forking Paths”, with countless time sequences containing all possibilities imaginable. In the meantime, we have found ourselves in a world in which the game rules of the Amazonian tribe and the Borges’ labyrinth have inter- mingled with each other. We seem to have got into a time lapse where the clock hands have stopped dead, and the world has sunk into a null-gravity timelessness. On the other hand, now, we have a feeling of a new strength. It is as if we could do anything while time has stopped in tracks, i.e., outrun those ahead of us or catch up with our own selves and find what we have lost or give our selves what we have amassed. The year 2020 has become an alternative history for us. It has given us a chance to make a fresh start, get rid of useless texts, correct mis- takes, and write new narratives. It has also become a totally Oriental-style comforting symbol of silence and quiet. Just a while ago, our todays were just like our yesterdays, with hardly any difference to notice. Now, that ideal age of linear time and good chances to avoid getting lost in labyrinths is over and gone. When that world collapsed, we found ourselves in Ts'ui Pên’s labyrinth in the Garden of Forking Paths, each being an image of the world still unfinished, but per- fect nonetheless. What kind of choice shall we make? This is for the year 2021 to show. Man is always free to choose which path to take even lying under the guillotine blade, still having a whole eyewink to choose an answer to the question “What am I here for?” from a variety of options. In 2020, we have been “isolated” from travelling, socializing, destroying, or creating things in the world, actually, very tired of our frenzied activities. All this time, we seem to have been in a ‘Confined Space Zone,’ either created by ourselves, or left Lara Lychagina behind by aliens from outer space after a Strugatsky-style roadside picnic. We are still in search of the Wish-Granting Golden Sphere, yet knowing not what wish to make. Maybe, we should wish to stop being stalkers and recall how easy it is to be just humans living not in “The Zone” but on good old Earth, in our Home secure enough for us to take off all masks and gloves. For ever. Just to live our lives. Then, we should realize that 2020 has been not only a time of innumerable losses but also a path of opportunities we are still unaware of. Editor-in-Chief 165 164 WINTER 2020/21 I n The World Bridge proudly presents Nelle Holmes, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association andt a voter of the Golden Global Awards. She has had heart-to-hearte talks with such cinema e PART celebrities as Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Caitlyn r Jenner, to name just a few, and written for Vogue, GQ, Snob, The Rake, The Hollywood Reporter, and Tatler. Now, Nelle Holmes will be writing The Chronicles of Hollywood, our new column about the life of the main v US entertainment industry’s symbol. i e 163 w162 SACHA BARON COHEN WINTER 2020/21 October 21, 2020 Sacha Baron Cohen Via Zoom Interview — Nellee Holmes Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm — Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Amazon Prime The Trial of the Chicago 7 Netflix Nellee Holmes. We’re living in tough times in a strange world, and Borat proves it. What do you do in your personal and professional lives to improve your wellness and avoid bad vibes? How would you advise us to manage our emo- tions and mindsets? Sacha Baron Cohen. I don’t think I am the person to advise anyone on managing anything. Well, I’m friendly with a surfer, who specializes in big waves, and once, he gave me an excellent bit of advice, which is, when you are stressed, to breathe in and out through your nose. Several times in the movie, I was quite stressed, and found it a good way to lower my heart rate. So, it’s all about breathing. (Laughs) N.H. You use your chance to raise your voice on political, racial, and other is- sues. Do you have a hope that, with all the current public movements, the on-going pandemic, and everything else happening now, human society is undergoing a reset so needed to become better than it has been before? 160 THE WORLD BRIDGE 161 SACHA BARON COHEN WINTER 2020/21 The thing is, I had known about Abbie Hoffman yes, that was it, and he let me go. I went away for many years. The topic of my undergraduate and hid in a bathroom for five hours, listening to thesis was the role of Jews in the Black Civil Rights the sounds various conservative men made while Movement during the1960s. Abbie was one of the answering nature calls. radical Jewish students supporting the movement Finally, I was apprehended by the secret service in the southern United States and got involved and soon found myself surrounded by agents, with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com- police officers of all kinds, and event security men. S.B.C. It’s hard to say. Firstly, I’m a comedian, an actor, but not a philosopher or an academic. mittee (SNCC). When I was 20, the head of that The main thing for me was to keep my incognito I wish that, as a society, we would listen to academics and experts rather than to demagogues. organization, a man called Bob Moses, gave me one since if I had got identified and the media had As someone who’s had some fame, I’m reluctant to espouse any views. I do think we’re about of his rare interviews. learnt about my appearance at CPAC, it would have to face increasingly hard times as more and more people will be dying from COVID 19. A lot Talking about The Spy last year, I mentioned that been too big a story. So, I tried to prevent all those of this grief is obviously due to politicians’ refusing to listen to experts. Will any good come my late father had been fascinated by Eli Cohen officers from getting my ID for as long as possible. out of this awful period that has beset humanity? I hope so, but there will be so much more and had a book about him. A while ago, I found At one point, there were about 12 of them around suffering and so many more deaths that I cannot feel sure of it. On top of everything, the out that Dad had had a book about Abbie Hoffman me, demanding to see my ID. Trying to stall them coming election is so uncertain that America may end up in a far worse situation than now, too. So, my father respected those two men, and I as long as I could, I asked them to verify they were depending on its results. So, it’s hard for me to feel optimistic at the moment. grew up with books about them on a bookshelf in indeed law enforcement officers by showing their our house. This is my connection with the story of IDs first. One of them pointed to a massive badge N.H. Borat shows hatred, bigotry, and other Abbie Hoffman. on a string around his neck and asked if I was deeply rooted evil attitudes man satisfied. I wondered how I was to know it was a had always had before social media N.H. How did you feel crashing the CPAC? real ID and suchlike. Well, they kept on asking for appeared. You’ve been very critical N.H. What did you want to achieve through Was your heart pounding? Giuliani says my ID, and I finally said it was in my shoe. They of social media, Silicon Valley, and what Borat and the sequel? it was a fabrication. Could you say if did not want to mess with my footwear and let me they all have been doing to us.

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